package macaddr

ipaddr: IP and MAC address manipulation

A library for manipulation of IP and MAC address representations.

Features:

• oUnit-based tests
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR prefix support
• IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR-scoped address support
• Ipaddr.V4 and Ipaddr.V4.Prefix modules are Map.OrderedType
• Ipaddr.V6 and Ipaddr.V6.Prefix modules are Map.OrderedType
• Ipaddr and Ipaddr.Prefix modules are Map.OrderedType
• Ipaddr_unix in findlib subpackage ipaddr.unix provides compatibility with the standard library Unix module
• Ipaddr_top in findlib subpackage ipaddr.top provides top-level pretty printers
• IP address scope classification
• IPv4-mapped addresses in IPv6 (::ffff:0:0/96) are an embedding of IPv4
• MAC-48 (Ethernet) address support
• Macaddr is a Map.OrderedType
• All types have sexplib serializers/deserializers optionally via the Ipaddr_sexp and Macaddr_sexp libraries.

Usage

There are the following opam packages included:

• ipaddr: the Ipaddr and associated modules
• macaddr: the Macaddr and associated modules.

There are the following ocamlfind libraries included as part of this repository, included as part of the respective opam packages.

• ipaddr: The Ipaddr module for IPv4/6 manipulation.
• ipaddr.top: Toplevel printers for Ipaddr.
• macaddr: The Macaddr module for MAC address manipulation.
• macaddr.top: Toplevel printers for Macaddr.
• ipaddr.sexp: S-expression converters for Ipaddr.
• macaddr.sexp: S-expression converters for Macaddr.

Contact

• Issues: https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-ipaddr/issues
• E-mail: mirageos-devel@lists.xenproject.org
• API Documentation: http://docs.mirage.io/ipaddr/
• Discussion: https://discuss.ocaml.org with the mirageos tag.