Xealous Nets 0.9 review
DownloadXealous Nets is a set of programs that let you perform network calculations
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Xealous Nets is a set of programs that let you perform network calculations. Network calculations are useful and handy for the typical network administrator as they allow classful calculations and classless (CIDR) calculations, combining the functionality given by several online similar calculators in one single and portable package with a simple and effective command line interface.
Classful subnetting and supernetting is done with the xealous_classful program, which gives you information about class type, network and host bits, network and wildcard masks, etc. It also outputs the subnets or nets being combined in supernetting.
As the number of subnets can be pretty high (for example, when you input a class A network and use 30 bits for the mask), it also lets you specify how many nets or subnets to display, if any at all. Usage examples are presented when you run the program without arguments.
Classless calculations are done with the xealous_cidr program, which is inspired in the famous IPcalc program. As with the previous program, usage instructions are displayed when running the program without arguments.
Requirements:
ANSI C compiler
make
What's New in This Release:
The one-line supernetting fix introduced in version 0.7 not only did not repair supernetting, but it also broke subnetting too.
This has been fully fixed and I think both subnetting and supernetting work completely now.
In addition, the package includes now a manpage for each program.
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