[NET-189] Add netmask translation feature

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kenny MacLeod
• Created: 28/Feb/08 16:46
• Updated: 02/Mar/08 16:50
• Resolved: 02/Mar/08 16:50

Description

Java is sorely lacking in a good quality open source APi for translating standard IP netmasks, e.g.

10.1.0.0/16
83.217.112.18/255.255.255.240
10.1.0.*

etc etc

These sorts of masks are commonly used in the likes of Apache web server, and I would really like to use them in java. A utlity to translate them into sequences of InetAddress objects would be perfect.

Commons-Net would seem like a good project to put them in.

Thoughts?