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efhram
efhram

Reputation: 31

check for subnet conflicts

I'm writing a script that gets a /16 and breaks it down into different subnets (/24, 23, 27, etc). I realized that I may run into conflicting subnets, and I'm looking for a way to check that. I haven't found anything within ipcalc or netaddr that addresses this specifically. Thank youf or your help

def subnetting(self, cidrBlock, subnets):
            networks = subnets
            cidrblock = cidrBlock
            assigned_subnets = []
            ipnetwork = IPNetwork(cidrblock)
            subnet_list = ipnetwork.subnet(int(subnets))
            for subnet in subnet_list:
                    assigned_subnets.append(subnet)
            return assigned_subnets

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1659

Answers (3)

kichik
kichik

Reputation: 34704

You can use the ipaddress module that's available since Python 3.3.

import ipaddress

cidr1 = ipaddress.ip_network("10.10.0.0/23")
cidr2 = ipaddress.ip_network("10.10.1.0/24")
print("Conflict?", cidr1.overlaps(cidr2))

Upvotes: 0

shishax
shishax

Reputation: 51

Try with ipconflict.

ipconflict 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.1.0/22

Output:

conflict found: 10.0.1.0/24 <-> 10.0.1.0/22

Upvotes: 0

Ron Maupin
Ron Maupin

Reputation: 6452

To compare two subnets to see if they conflict, you need to apply the smallest mask to both to see if they are equal. If they are equal, then you have a conflict.

I will assume the 10.10.0.0/16 network. If you create 10.10.0.0/23 and 10.10.1.0/24, you compare them by applying the mask for /23 (255.255.254.0) to both 10.10.0.0 and 10.10.1.0.

10.10.0.0 AND 255.255.254.0 = 10.10.0.0
10.10.1.0 AND 255.255.254.0 = 10.10.0.0

They are equal, so they overlap and conflict.

Upvotes: 1

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