On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:57:15 +0800, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> uttered:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Michael Fincham
> <michael@hotplate.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > whatmask - automatically calculates parameters of a subnet or
> > subnet mask
>
> How does this compare with sipcalc, which is already in Debian?
Hey, sipcalc is neat. It almost certainly eclipses the need for this
package. Compare outputs:
mfincham@michael-desktop:~/Working/whatmask$ whatmask 192.0.2.1/24
------------------------------------------------
TCP/IP NETWORK INFORMATION
------------------------------------------------
IP Entered = ..................: 192.0.2.1
CIDR = ........................: /24
Netmask = .....................: 255.255.255.0
Netmask (hex) = ...............: 0xffffff00
Wildcard Bits = ...............: 0.0.0.255
------------------------------------------------
Network Address = .............: 192.0.2.0
Broadcast Address = ...........: 192.0.2.255
Usable IP Addresses = .........: 254
First Usable IP Address = .....: 192.0.2.1
Last Usable IP Address = ......: 192.0.2.254
vs:
mfincham@michael-desktop:~/Working/whatmask$ sipcalc 192.0.2.1/24
-[ipv4 : 192.0.2.1/24] - 0
[CIDR]
Host address - 192.0.2.1
Host address (decimal) - 3221225985
Host address (hex) - C0000201
Network address - 192.0.2.0
Network mask - 255.255.255.0
Network mask (bits) - 24
Network mask (hex) - FFFFFF00
Broadcast address - 192.0.2.255
Cisco wildcard - 0.0.0.255
Addresses in network - 256
Network range - 192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255
Usable range - 192.0.2.1 - 192.0.2.254
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> Also, does it support IPv6?
No.
whatmask may have already reached its useful EOL, given these two
facts :)
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Michael Fincham
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