[RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

[Matthew Seaman]

On 11/02/2011 18:08, Devin Teske wrote:
> $ time blen2netmask 26
> 255.255.255.192
> 
> real    0m0.004s
> user    0m0.001s
> sys     0m0.004s
> 
> That's pretty fast, I'd say ^_^ (faster than the other implementations
> -- especially considering that it doesn't have to fork anything).

There are only 33 possible netmasks -- did you evaluate simply
enumerating them all and simply looking up the result?

Hmmm...


blen2netmask() {
    local nbits=$1

    case $nbits in
	  0) echo '0.0.0.0'         ;;
	  1) echo '128.0.0.0'       ;;
          2) echo '192.0.0.0'       ;;
          3) echo '224.0.0.0'       ;;
          4) echo '240.0.0.0'       ;;
          5) echo '248.0.0.0'       ;;
          6) echo '252.0.0.0'       ;;
          7) echo '254.0.0.0'       ;;
          8) echo '255.0.0.0'       ;;
          9) echo '255.128.0.0'     ;;
         10) echo '255.192.0.0'     ;;
         11) echo '255.224.0.0'     ;;
         12) echo '255.240.0.0'     ;;
         13) echo '255.248.0.0'     ;;
         14) echo '255.252.0.0'     ;;
         15) echo '255.254.0.0'     ;;
         16) echo '255.255.0.0'     ;;
         17) echo '255.255.128.0'   ;;
         18) echo '255.255.192.0'   ;;
         19) echo '255.255.224.0'   ;;
         20) echo '255.255.240.0'   ;;
         21) echo '255.255.248.0'   ;;
         22) echo '255.255.252.0'   ;;
         23) echo '255.255.254.0'   ;;
         24) echo '255.255.255.0'   ;;
         25) echo '255.255.255.128' ;;
         26) echo '255.255.255.192' ;;
         27) echo '255.255.255.224' ;;
         28) echo '255.255.255.240' ;;
         29) echo '255.255.255.248' ;;
         30) echo '255.255.255.252' ;;
	 31) echo '255.255.255.254' ;;
         32) echo '255.255.255.255' ;;
          *) echo "$nbits -- not a valid IPv4 netmask length"
	     return -1 ;;
    esac
    return 0
}

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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