Linux Command line tool to work with netmasks / CIDR notation

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I'm terrible at working out network subnets in my head. Is there some command line tool for linux (ubuntu packages a plus), that lets me put in 255.255.255.224 and it'll tell me that is a /27?

Kyle Brandt · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-17T18:54:48.887

ipcalc can do this, for example:

[kbrandt@kbrandt-opadmin: ~] ipcalc 192.168.1.1/24                 
Address:   192.168.1.1          11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000001
Netmask:   255.255.255.0 = 24   11111111.11111111.11111111. 00000000
Wildcard:  0.0.0.255            00000000.00000000.00000000. 11111111
=>
Network:   192.168.1.0/24       11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000000
HostMin:   192.168.1.1          11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000001
HostMax:   192.168.1.254        11000000.10101000.00000001. 11111110
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255        11000000.10101000.00000001. 11111111
Hosts/Net: 254                   Class C, Private Internet

if you entered a subnet mask instead of CIDR, you will still see the /## CIDR number after 'Network:', so it goes both ways.

or with sipcalc:

[kbrandt@kbrandt-opadmin: ~] sipcalc 192.168.1.1/24                                                                                             <23403@8:55>
-[ipv4 : 192.168.1.1/24] - 0
[CIDR]
Host address        - 192.168.1.1
Host address (decimal)  - 3232235777
Host address (hex)  - C0A80101
Network address     - 192.168.1.0
Network mask        - 255.255.255.0
Network mask (bits) - 24
Network mask (hex)  - FFFFFF00
Broadcast address   - 192.168.1.255
Cisco wildcard      - 0.0.0.255
Addresses in network    - 256
Network range       - 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.255
Usable range        - 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254

The Ubuntu Packages are ipcalc and sipcalc:

sudo apt-get install ipcalc
sudo apt-get install sipcalc

Interesting output. The ipcalc utility on Fedora (writter by Redhat) is much lamer. — fpmurphy, Aug 17 '09 at 19:27

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 28 '14 at 18:00

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netmask supports automatically figuring out minimal sets of subnets for a particular IP range, which I find to be handy. For example:

# netmask -c 10.32.0.0:10.255.255.255
      10.32.0.0/11
      10.64.0.0/10
     10.128.0.0/9

answered Oct 28 '14 at 18:00

wfaulk

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

You could use the bash scripts located here for converting from cidr to mask and mask to cidr notation:

Here's a copy of what the scripts are, to ensure the answer is always available here:

mask2cdr ()
{
   # Assumes there's no "255." after a non-255 byte in the mask
   local x=${1##*255.}
   set -- 0^^^128^192^224^240^248^252^254^ $(( (${#1} - ${#x})*2 )) ${x%%.*}
   x=${1%%$3*}
   echo $(( $2 + (${#x}/4) ))
}


cdr2mask ()
{
   # Number of args to shift, 255..255, first non-255 byte, zeroes
   set -- $(( 5 - ($1 / 8) )) 255 255 255 255 $(( (255 << (8 - ($1 % 8))) & 255 )) 0 0 0
   [ $1 -gt 1 ] && shift $1 || shift
   echo ${1-0}.${2-0}.${3-0}.${4-0}
}

so for example, running:

mask2cdr 255.255.255.255 returns 32

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 17 '09 at 13:01

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I've used ipcalc before for this. It looks like Ubuntu also has sipcalc. See here.

answered Aug 17 '09 at 13:01

Josh Kelley

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 17 '09 at 13:02

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Try either sipcalc or ipcalc.

answered Aug 17 '09 at 13:02

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 17 '09 at 14:03

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I use ipcalc for network subnetting, but it's limited to IPv4 addresses.
you can use subnetcalc, it support both of IPv4 and IPv6.

answered Aug 17 '09 at 14:03

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