December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 57m
English
Content preview from Practical Network Automation - Second Edition
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Validating the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
In the expanding landscape of networking, a network engineer is faced with the additional task of validations of any IPv6 address. Let's see a sample code to validate the IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses using the socket library:
import socketdef validateipv4ip(address): try: socket.inet_aton(address) print ("Correct IPv4 IP "+address) except socket.error: print ("wrong IPv4 IP "+address)def validateipv6ip(address): ### for IPv6 IP address validation try: socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET6,address) print ("Correct IPv6 IP "+address) except socket.error: print ("wrong IPv6 IP "+address)#correct IPs:validateipv4ip("8.8.8.8")validateipv6ip("2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334")#Wrong IPs:validateipv4ip("192.178.263.22") ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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