How can I calculate the subnetmask in Python if I have the first and the last ip adresses in a range?
I want the netmask as e.g. 255.255.255.0.
Thanks ;)
How can I calculate the subnetmask in Python if I have the first and the last ip adresses in a range?
I want the netmask as e.g. 255.255.255.0.
Thanks ;)
Say that we have...
def ip_to_int(a, b, c, d):
return (a << 24) + (b << 16) + (c << 8) + d
Then you can have the representation doing a few XORs. Eg.
>>> bin(0xFFFFFFFF ^ ip_to_int(192, 168, 1, 1) ^ ip_to_int(192, 168, 1, 254))
'0b11111111111111111111111100000000'
So:
def mask(ip1, ip2):
"ip1 and ip2 are lists of 4 integers 0-255 each"
m = 0xFFFFFFFF ^ ip_to_int(*ip1) ^ ip_to_int(*ip2)
return [(m & (0xFF << (8*n))) >> 8*n for n in (3, 2, 1, 0)]
>>> mask([192, 168, 1, 1], [192, 168, 1, 254])
[255L, 255L, 255L, 0L]