From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T22:37:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Standardlib "ipaddr.rb"

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:11:25 +0900, Markus Werner
<markus.werner@wobcom.de> wrote:
> 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.

Why not modify the IPAddr lib and offer your changes as a patch to the
author/maintainer?

-austin
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