ipaddrcheck

Using

An IPv4 and IPv6 validation utility for use in scripts

Depends on libcidr by Matthew Fuller (http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/projects/libcidr) and libpcre.

Usage: ./src/ipaddrcheck <OPTIONS> [STRING]
Address checking options:
  --is-valid                 Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address
                               with or without prefix length
  --is-any-cidr              Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address
                               with prefix length
  --is-any-single            Check if STRING is a valid single IPv4 or IPv6 address
  --is-any-host              Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 host address
  --is-any-net               Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 network address
  --is-ipv4                  Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 address with mask 
  --is-ipv4-cidr             Check if STRING is a valid CIDR-formatted address 
  --is-ipv4-single           Check if STRING is a valid single address
                               (i.e. with no mask)
  --is-ipv4-host             Check if STRING is a host address 
  --is-ipv4-net              Check if STRING is a network address 
  --is-ipv4-broadcast        Check if STRING is a broadcast address 
  --is-ipv4-multicast        Check if STRING is a multicast address 
  --is-ipv4-loopback         Check if STRING is a loopback address 
  --is-ipv4-link-local       Check if STRING is a link-local address 
  --is-ipv4-rfc1918          Check if STRING is a private (RFC1918) address 
  --is-ipv6                  Check if STRING is a valid IPv6 address 
  --is-ipv6-cidr             Check if STRING is a CIDR-formatted IPv6 address 
  --is-ipv6-single           Check if STRING is an IPv6 address with no mask 
  --is-ipv6-host             Check if STRING is an IPv6 host address 
  --is-ipv6-net              Check if STRING is an IPv6 network address 
  --is-ipv6-multicast        Check if STRING is an IPv6 multicast address 
  --is-ipv6-link-local       Check if STRING is an IPv6 link-local address 
  --is-valid-intf-address    Check if STRING is an IPv4 or IPv6 address that 
                               can be assigned to a network interface 
  --is-ipv4-range            Check if STRING is a valid IPv4 address range
  --is-ipv6-range            Check if STRING is a valid IPv6 address range
  
Behavior options:
  --allow-loopback             When used with --is-valid-intf-address,
                                 makes IPv4 loopback addresses pass the check
  --range-prefix-length <INT>  When used with --is-ipv4-range or --is-ipv6-range,
                                 requires the range boundaries to lie within
                                 a prefix of given length

Other options:
  --version                  Print version information and exit 
  --help                     Print help message and exit

Exit codes:
  0    if check passed,
  1    if check failed,
  2    if a problem occured (wrong option, internal error etc.)

Building

Building from source:

autoreconf -i
./configure
make && make install

Running unit tests:

make check