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Using Perl Net::IP to Manipulate IPv4 Addresses

In a previous post, I demonstrated a Korn shell script which determined the subnet mask for a range of IPv4 addresses. Perl has a module called Net::IP which provides a number of functions which can be used to manipulate IPv4 (and also IPv6) addresses to provide the same information and a lot more besides. For example, the following code outputs a lot of information about a classless prefix: use Net::IP; my $ip = new Net::IP (‘10.1.1.0/24’) or die (Net::IP::Error()); print ("IP : ".$ip->ip()."n"); print ("Sho : ".$ip->short()."n"); print ("Bin : ".$ip->binip()."n"); print ("Int : ".$ip->intip()."n"); print ("Mask: ".$ip->mask()."n"); print ("Last:

Calculate IPv4 Subnet Mask and Prefix

Here is a simple ksh93 script which I recently wrote to calculate the subnet mask and prefix when given a range of IPv4 addresses. It makes use of the bit manipulation facilities available in ksh93. #!/bin/ksh93 [[ $# != 2 ]] && { echo "Usage: $0 ipaddress1 ipaddress2" exit 1 } SaveIFS=$IFS IFS="./" typeset -a IParr1=($1) typeset -a IParr2=($2) IFS=$SaveIFS typeset -i2 ip11=${IParr1[0]} typeset -i2 ip12=${IParr1[1]} typeset -i2 ip13=${IParr1[2]} typeset -i2 ip14=${IParr1[3]} typeset -i2 ip21=${IParr2[0]} typeset -i2 ip22=${IParr2[1]} typeset -i2 ip23=${IParr2[2]} typeset -i2 ip24=${IParr2[3]} mask=0; match=1 for ((arr=1; arr < 5; arr++)) do binary_value1="" binary_value2="" for ((b=7; b >= 0;

Use Wget? Try Aria2

If you currently use wget to download files via the command line, you should have a look at aria2. The aria2 utility is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source download utility which supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink and can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. Unlike the original aria utility which has a GTK+ interface; aria2 provides only a command-line interface and thus has lower resource requirements. Aria2 tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It has two distinctive features: (1) aria2 can download a file from several URIs(HTTP(S)/FTP/BitTorrent) and (2) If you give aria2 a list of

Fedora 17 "Error: Protected multilib versions"

Getting an error like the following when installing a package or group of packages on your Fedora 17 system? Error: Protected multilib versions: XXXXXXXX.fc17.i686 != XXXXXXXX.fc17.x86_64 This is because whenever you have both 32 and 64 bit versions of a package, they must be of the same version and release. The error message is showing you that the 32 bit version-release of the package does not equal (!=) the 64 bit version-release. You either need to update the 32 bit version to match the 64 bit version, or erase the 32 bit version to get rid of this error. While