From: Markus Werner <markus.werner@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T17:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Standardlib "ipaddr.rb"

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 14:59, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Hi Florian,

> IpNetwork: Represents a network/ip-prefix, e.g.
> 	192.168.0.0/16, or
> 	192.168.1.0/24, but not 192.168.1.1/24, because it's not a
> 	network.
> IpAddress: Represents an ip-address, without netmask
> IpInterface: Represents an ip-address in a certain network, e.g
> 	192.168.1.1/24.
> 	I'm not sure if 192.168.0.0 is a valid ip-address in the
> 	192.168.0.0/24 network...

Just to think about : 192.168.1.1/32 or fe00::1/128 is a valid notation for a 
single IP Address.

I will write my own Classes for IP Addresses now, and hope that the IPAddr lib 
get changed in the future. 

regards


Markus