Crate ipnet

Types for IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses.

This module provides types and useful methods for working with IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses, commonly called IP prefixes. The new IpNet, Ipv4Net, and Ipv6Net types build on the existing IpAddr, Ipv4Addr, and Ipv6Addr types already provided in Rust’s standard library and align to their design to stay consistent.

The module also provides the IpSubnets, Ipv4Subnets, and Ipv6Subnets types for interating over the subnets contained in an IP address range. The IpAddrRange, Ipv4AddrRange, and Ipv6AddrRange types for iterating over IP addresses in a range. And traits that extend Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr with methods for addition, subtraction, bitwise-and, and bitwise-or operations that are missing in Rust’s standard library.

The module only uses stable features so it is guaranteed to compile using the stable toolchain.

Organization

• IpNet represents an IP network address, either IPv4 or IPv6.
• Ipv4Net and Ipv6Net are respectively IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses.
• IpSubnets, Ipv4Subnets, and Ipv6Subnets are iterators that generate the smallest set of IP network addresses bound by an IP address range and minimum prefix length. These can be created using their constructors. They are also returned by the subnets() methods and used within the aggregate() methods.
• IpAddrRange, Ipv4AddrRange, and Ipv6AddrRange are iterators that generate IP addresses. These can be created using their constructors. They are also returned by the hosts() methods.
• The IpAdd, IpSub, IpBitAnd, IpBitOr traits extend the Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr types with methods to perform these operations.

Serde support

This library comes with support for serde but it’s not enabled by default. Use the serde feature to enable.

[dependencies]
ipnet = { version = "2", features = ["serde"] }

For human readable formats (e.g. JSON) the IpNet, Ipv4Net, and Ipv6Net types will serialize to their Display strings.

For compact binary formats (e.g. Bincode) the Ipv4Net and Ipv6Net types will serialize to a string of 5 and 17 bytes that consist of the network address octects followed by the prefix length. The IpNet type will serialize to an Enum with the V4 or V6 variant index prepending the above string of 5 or 17 bytes.

Structs

AddrParseError	An error which can be returned when parsing an IP network address.
Ipv4AddrRange	An Iterator over a range of IPv4 addresses.
Ipv4Net	An IPv4 network address.
Ipv4Subnets	An Iterator that generates IPv4 network addresses.
Ipv6AddrRange	An Iterator over a range of IPv6 addresses.
Ipv6Net	An IPv6 network address.
Ipv6Subnets	An Iterator that generates IPv6 network addresses.
PrefixLenError	An error which can be returned when the prefix length is invalid.

Enums

IpAddrRange	An Iterator over a range of IP addresses, either IPv4 or IPv6.
IpNet	An IP network address, either IPv4 or IPv6.
IpSubnets	An Iterator that generates IP network addresses, either IPv4 or IPv6.

Traits

IpAdd	Provides a saturating_add() method for Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr.
IpBitAnd	Provides a bitand() method for Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr.
IpBitOr	Provides a bitor() method for Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr.
IpSub	Provides a saturating_sub() method for Ipv4Addr and Ipv6Addr.