#include <address.h>
Public Member Functions | |
IPV6Mask (const char *mask) | |
Create the mask from a null terminated ASCII string such as "255.255.255.128". | |
Friends | |
__EXPORT IPV6Host | operator& (const IPV6Host &addr, const IPV6Mask &mask) |
Masks are usually used to coerce host addresses into a specific router or class domain. |
The seperate class is used so that C++ type casting can automatically determine when an IPV6Address object is really a mask address object rather than simply using the base class. This also allows manipulative operators for address masking to operate only when presented with a Masked address as well as providing cleaner and safer source.
ost::IPV6Mask::IPV6Mask | ( | const char * | mask | ) |
Create the mask from a null terminated ASCII string such as "255.255.255.128".
mask | null terminated ASCII mask string. |
Masks are usually used to coerce host addresses into a specific router or class domain.
This can be done by taking the Inet Host Address object and "and"ing it with an address mask. This operation can be directly expressed in C++ through the & operator.
addr | host address to be masked by subnet. | |
mask | inetnet mask address object to mask by. |