This is a modern tool to assist in network address calculations for IPv4 and IPv6. It acts both as a tool to output human readable information about a network or address, as well as a tool suitable to be used by scripts or other programs.
It supports printing a summary about the provided network address, multiple command line options per information to be printed, transparent IPv6 support, and in addition it will use libGeoIP if available to provide geographic information.
The project started as a fork of the ipcalc tool in the Fedora distribution but it has since then replaced the original tool.
Simply type:
$ make
In order to access geo-information the application depends on the maxmind database (libmaxminddb). Alternatively it can be built using the older libgeoip (libgeoip) or with no geo-information whatsoever. The options can be provided on the makefile via the variables USE_GEOIP (yes/no), USE_MAXMIND (yes/no). For example the following command will compile with no support for geo-information.
$ make USE_GEOIP=no USE_MAXMIND=no
$ ./ipcalc --all-info 193.92.150.2/24
Address: 193.92.150.2
Network: 193.92.150.0/24
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 = 24
Broadcast: 193.92.150.255
Reverse DNS: 150.92.193.in-addr.arpa.
Address space: Internet
Address class: Class C
HostMin: 193.92.150.1
HostMax: 193.92.150.254
Hosts/Net: 254
Country code: GR
Country: Greece
$ ./ipcalc -pnmb --minaddr --maxaddr --geoinfo --addrspace 193.92.150.2/255.255.255.224
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
PREFIX=27
BROADCAST=193.92.150.31
NETWORK=193.92.150.0
MINADDR=193.92.150.1
MAXADDR=193.92.150.30
ADDRSPACE="Internet"
COUNTRY="Greece"
$ ./ipcalc --all-info 2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:14/64
Full Address: 2a03:2880:0020:4f06:face:b00c:0000:0014
Address: 2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:14
Full Network: 2a03:2880:0020:4f06:0000:0000:0000:0000/64
Network: 2a03:2880:20:4f06::/64
Netmask: ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: = 64
Reverse DNS: 6.0.f.4.0.2.0.0.0.8.8.2.3.0.a.2.ip6.arpa.
Address space: Global Unicast
HostMin: 2a03:2880:20:4f06::
HostMax: 2a03:2880:20:4f06:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
Hosts/Net: 2^(64) = 18446744073709551616
Country code: IE
Country: Ireland
$ ./ipcalc -pnmb --minaddr --maxaddr --addrspace --geoinfo 2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:14/64
NETMASK=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
PREFIX=64
NETWORK=2a03:2880:20:4f06::
MINADDR=2a03:2880:20:4f06::
MAXADDR=2a03:2880:20:4f06:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
ADDRSPACE="Global Unicast"
COUNTRY="Ireland"