Reference
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The pages in this section contain technical description of various parts of netaddr machinery.

netaddr provides support for:

Layer 3 addresses

- IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, subnets, masks, prefixes
- iterating, slicing, sorting, summarizing and classifying IP networks
- dealing with various ranges formats (CIDR, arbitrary ranges and globs, nmap)
- set based operations (unions, intersections etc) over IP addresses and subnets
- parsing a large variety of different formats and notations
- looking up IANA IP block information
- generating DNS reverse lookups
- supernetting and subnetting

Layer 2 addresses

- representation and manipulation MAC addresses and EUI-64 identifiers
- looking up IEEE organisational information (OUI, IAB)
- generating derived IPv6 addresses

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    reference/compatibility
    api
    changes
    references
    copyright
    license
