James Kipp wrote: > > Happy Hollidays Hello,
> I want to bitwize AND 2 IP adr strings, not sure of how to pack() them to be > able to AND them. before i start playing with pack,sprintf,socket,etc.. I > was wondering if someone already had a way. I wrote this a while ago, it may give you some ideas. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Socket; die "usage: $0 address netmask\n" unless @ARGV == 2; my $address = inet_aton( shift ); my $netmask = inet_aton( shift ); my %mask = ( chr 0b11111111, 8, chr 0b11111110, 7, chr 0b11111100, 6, chr 0b11111000, 5, chr 0b11110000, 4, chr 0b11100000, 3, chr 0b11000000, 2, chr 0b10000000, 1, chr 0b00000000, 0, ); my $bits; $bits += $mask{$1} while $netmask =~ /(.)/sg; my $class = vec( $address, 7, 1 ) ? vec( $address, 6, 1 ) ? vec( $address, 5, 1 ) ? 'D' : 'C' : 'B' : 'A'; printf "Address: %15s\n", inet_ntoa( $address ); printf "Netmask: %15s\n", inet_ntoa( $netmask ); printf "Network: %15s/%d (Class %s)\n", inet_ntoa( $netmask & $address ), $bits, $class; printf "Broadcast: %15s\n", inet_ntoa( ~$netmask | $address ); printf "HostMin: %15s\n", inet_ntoa( ($netmask & $address) | "\x00\x00\x00\x01" ); printf "HostMax: %15s\n", inet_ntoa( (~$netmask | $address) & "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFE" ); printf "Hosts/Net: %d\n", 2 ** ( 32 - $bits ) - 2; __END__ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]