commit 11cef800ad0317b6e9f6f4d9679a847418a36945
author Ratan Gupta <ratagupt@in.ibm.com> Mon May 29 08:41:48 2017 +0530
committer Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz> Thu Jun 08 13:42:05 2017 +0000
tree 88b49e5d212061e3da9e60467f630564870a9f2b
parent 47722dcfd50a10e68a1c0846582ea99317e03f9e

Fetch the network portion of the IP address

eg 192.168.2.24/24 ==> 192.168.2.0

Change-Id: I5e46ce7b371360c90ef74fac175c8379c6f31d4c
Signed-off-by: Ratan Gupta <ratagupt@in.ibm.com>

util.hpp

diff --git a/util.hpp b/util.hpp
index c305724..fb511fe 100644
--- a/util.hpp
+++ b/util.hpp
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@
  */
 bool isLinkLocal(const std::string& address);
 
+/* @brief gets the network section of the ip adress.
+ * @param[in] addressFamily - IP address family(AF_INET/AF_INET6).
+ * @param[in] ipaddress - IP address.
+ * @param[in] prefix - prefix length.
+ * @returns network section of the ipaddress.
+ */
+std::string getNetworkID(int addressFamily, const std::string& ipaddress,
+                         uint8_t prefix);
+
 } //namespace network
 
 class Descriptor
@@ -40,7 +49,7 @@
         Descriptor(const Descriptor&) = delete;
         Descriptor& operator=(const Descriptor&) = delete;
         Descriptor(Descriptor&&) = delete;
-        Descriptor& operator=(Descriptor&&) = delete;
+        Descriptor& operator=(Descriptor &&) = delete;
 
         Descriptor(int fd) : fd(fd) {}