NETADDR is a Common Lisp library for manipulating IP addresses, subnets, ranges, and sets. It is inspired by its namesake library in Python, netaddr. NETADDR supports/provides:

• IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, subnets, and ranges.
• Shorthand syntax for the above with a reader macro #I. See the IP Syntax section for details.
• Helper lookup functions for reserved space, e.g., PRIVATE?, RESERVED?, and PUBLIC?.
• An IP-SET data structure for working with sets of addresses, subnets, and ranges. See MAKE-IP-SET.
• Set operations on the above like union, intersection, difference, and symmetric difference.
• Membership checks of IPs against subnets, ranges, and sets using CONTAINS?.

                           ┌ ─ ─ ─ ┐
                   ┌───────   IP+   ────────┐
                   │       └ ─ ─ ─ ┘        │
                   │                        │
                   │                        │
                   │                        │
                   ▼                        ▼
               ┌ ─ ─ ─ ┐              ┌──────────┐
                IP-LIKE ◀─ ─ set of─ ─│  IP-SET  │
               └ ─ ─ ─ ┘              └──────────┘
                   │
                   ├──────┐
      ┌────────────┘      ▼
      │               ┌ ─ ─ ─ ┐
      │             ┌─ IP-PAIR ──┐
      ▼             ▼ └ ─ ─ ─ ┘  ▼
┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐
│IP-ADDRESS│  │IP-NETWORK│ │ IP-RANGE │
└──────────┘  └──────────┘ └──────────┘

Users of this library will only instantiate the leaf classes in the tree above, using their respective MAKE-* functions, or in the case of the three that inherit from IP-LIKE, the short-hand #I notation. IP-SETs are comprised of a set of IP-LIKEs. Most operations will expect either IP-LIKEs as arguments and/or IP+s. For example, CONTAINS? takes an IP+ as its first argument and an IP-LIKE as its second argument because:

• An IP-ADDRESS CONTAINS? itself.
• An IP-NETWORK and an IP-RANGE CONTAINS? themselves, any subset of those networks or ranges, and any IP-ADDRESS that is a member of the network or range.
• An IP-SET CONTAINS? any of its member IP-LIKEs, and so on.

There are two equality operators for IP+ subclasses:

• IP-EQUAL (aliased to IP=)
• IP-EQUALP

Similar to Common Lisp's EQUAL and EQUALP, IP-EQUAL is more specific than IP-EQUALP. The former considers different classes to always be unequal, while the latter allows comparisons across all leaf classes described in the Class Hierarchy. For example:

NETADDR> (ip-equal #I("1.1.1.1") #I("1.1.1.1/32"))
NIL
NETADDR> (ip-equalp #I("1.1.1.1") #I("1.1.1.1/32"))
T
NETADDR> (ip-equalp #I("1.1.1.1") #I("1.1.1.1/31"))
NIL
NETADDR> (ip-equal #I("1.0.0.0/8") #I("1.0.0.0-1.255.255.255"))
NIL
NETADDR> (ip-equalp #I("1.0.0.0/8") #I("1.0.0.0-1.255.255.255"))
T
NETADDR> (ip-equal (make-ip-set (list #I("1.1.1.1"))) (make-ip-set (list #I("1.1.1.1/32"))))
NIL
NETADDR> (ip-equalp (make-ip-set (list #I("1.1.1.1"))) (make-ip-set (list #I("1.1.1.1/32"))))
T

IP-EQUAL always returns NIL if classes are different. However, IP-EQUALP returns T if the underlying object refers to the same set of IP addresses, regardless of the concrete object type. In general, if you are comparing individual IP-LIKEs, you'll want to use IP-EQUAL. If you are comparing IP-SETs, which may contain a mixture of classes internally, or IP-NETWORKs and IP-RANGEs, you'll want to use IP-EQUALP.

NETADDR provides a shorthand syntax for defining IP-LIKEs from strings with the reader macro #I that can be enabled by first calling ENABLE-IP-SYNTAX. If a single argument is provided, a single object is returned. If multiple arguments are provided, a list of objects is returned. Example usage is shown below:

NETADDR> #I("1.2.3.4")
#<IP-ADDRESS 1.2.3.4>
NETADDR> #I("192.168.1.0/24")
#<IP-NETWORK 192.168.1.0/24>
NETADDR> #I("::-ffff::")
#<IP-RANGE ::-ffff::>
NETADDR> #I("0.0.0.0" "1.1.1.1")
(#<IP-ADDRESS 0.0.0.0> #<IP-ADDRESS 1.1.1.1>)
NETADDR> (multiple-value-bind (x y z) (values "1.1.1.1" "::/96" "10.20.30.40-11.20.30.40")
           #I(x y z))
(#<IP-ADDRESS 1.1.1.1> #<IP-NETWORK ::/96> #<IP-RANGE 10.20.30.40-11.20.30.40>)