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Python Network Programming Cookbook

Python Network Programming Cookbook

By : Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming Cookbook

Python Network Programming Cookbook

3.5 (4)
By: Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition highlights the major aspects of network programming in Python, starting from writing simple networking clients to developing and deploying complex Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) systems. It creates the building blocks for many practical web and networking applications that rely on various networking protocols. It presents the power and beauty of Python to solve numerous real-world tasks in the area of network programming, network and system administration, network monitoring, and web-application development. In this edition, you will also be introduced to network modelling to build your own cloud network. You will learn about the concepts and fundamentals of SDN and then extend your network with Mininet. Next, you’ll find recipes on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and open and proprietary SDN approaches and frameworks. You will also learn to configure the Linux Foundation networking ecosystem and deploy and automate your networks with Python in the cloud and the Internet scale. By the end of this book, you will be able to analyze your network security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques.
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Extracting an IPv6 prefix from an IPv6 address

In your IPv6 application, you need to dig out the IPv6 address for getting the prefix information. Note that the upper 64-bits of an IPv6 address are represented from a global routing prefix plus a subnet ID, as defined in RFC 3513. A general prefix (for example, /48) holds a short prefix based on which a number of longer, more specific prefixes (for example, /64) can be defined. A Python script can be very helpful in generating the prefix information.

How to do it...

We can use the netifaces and netaddr third-party libraries to find out the IPv6 prefix information for a given IPv6 address.

Make sure to have netifaces and netaddr installed in your system:

$ pip install netaddr...

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