ipaddress.rb

Path: lib/ipaddress.rb
Last Update: Tue Feb 01 22:58:15 +0000 2011

IPAddress

A ruby library to manipulate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Package:IPAddress
Author:Marco Ceresa <ceresa@ieee.org>
License:Ruby License

Required files

ipaddress/ipv4   ipaddress/ipv6   ipaddress/extensions/extensions  

Methods

IPAddress  

Public Instance methods

IPAddress is a wrapper method built around IPAddress‘s library classes. Its purpouse is to make you indipendent from the type of IP address you‘re going to use.

For example, instead of creating the three types of IP addresses using their own contructors

  ip  = IPAddress::IPv4.new "172.16.10.1/24"
  ip6 = IPAddress::IPv6.new "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
  ip_mapped = IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

you can just use the IPAddress wrapper:

  ip  = IPAddress "172.16.10.1/24"
  ip6 = IPAddress "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
  ip_mapped = IPAddress "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

All the object created will be instances of the correct class:

 ip.class
   #=> IPAddress::IPv4
 ip6.class
   #=> IPAddress::IPv6
 ip_mapped.class
   #=> IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped

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