node-ipaddr

Node-ipaddr is a node module which allows you to create IP address pools and match IPs and entire networks against it.

TL;DR

Simple sample :

var ipaddr = require('./index.js');

var pool = ipaddr();
pool.add("10.1.1.0/28");
pool.add("10.1.2.0/28");
pool.add("10.1.3.0/24");
pool.add("10.1.0.0/16");
pool.add("10.0.0.0/15");
pool.add("10.1.3.0/24");
pool.add("1032:44FE:7654::1234/24");
pool.add("1032:44FE:7654::1234/23");
pool.add("1032:44FE:7654::1234/25");
pool.add("2032:44FE:7654::1234/23");
pool.add("3032:44FE:7654::1234/100");
pool.add("3032:44FE:7654:FFFF:FFFF::1234/100");
pool.dump();
pool.search("10.1.1.0/28");

Building/installing

To build the module, just run make or make rebuild. node-gyp is required to build it.

To install it, use npm, or copy files yourself, since there is currently no make install.

Available methods

• add addv4 addv6 : Add an IP address or network to the pool.
• search searchv4 searchv6 : Search an IP address or network in the pool. Returns true if it is fully included, or false else.
• dump : Returns a JSON object containing the current pool state.

Behavior

If a network contains other networks and they are all added to the pool, only the larger network will be kept.

The module also convert IPv4 addresses that are encoded into IPv6 form (for both insertion or search), for example :

::FFFF:1.2.3.5/127
::1.2.3.4/120
2002:BEEF:CAFE::/40

These will be translated into :

1.2.3.0/31
1.2.3.0/24
190.239.202.0/24

This behavior cannot be disabled for now directly in javascript but can be disabled by removing the IPPOOL_WANT_6TO4 define in ippool.hh and then rebuilding this module.

TODO

• [ ] Support IP ranges merging (10.0.0.0/16 and 10.1.0.0/16 => 10.0.0.0/15)
• [ ] Support addresses and networks removal.
• [ ] Add a method to clean the pool.
• [X] Support 6to4 translations
• [ ] Make 6to4 translations optionnal