Generating displays of networking addresses
View Patent ↗Technologies for generating displays of user-defined blocks of networking addresses on a map of an associated address space are provided. Each block of networking addresses is described in a user-defined table with a start address and a map size. The display for each block of network addresses may be rendered on the map at a location based on the relative position of the start address within the associated address space and of a size based on the mask size in relation to the associated address space.
1. A computer-implemented method of illustrating a networking address space, comprising executing operations on a computer system for:
accessing definitional information defining a block in the networking address space, wherein the block comprises a plurality of network addresses that are administered as a unit; and
rendering a map depicting a portion of the networking address space, the map comprising an N×N grid of individual grid spaces, wherein each grid space represents one or more individual network addresses, wherein the map includes an outlining rectangle bounding adjacent grid spaces representing the plurality of network addresses comprising the block, wherein the grid spaces bounded by the outlining rectangle contain a first visual indicator representing a first value for an attribute of the plurality of related network addresses comprising the block, wherein the map further includes a second outlining rectangle bounding adjacent grid spaces representing a plurality of network addresses comprising a second block, and wherein the grid spaces bounded by the second outlining rectangle contain the first visual indicator representing the first value for the attribute of the plurality of network addresses comprising the second block.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the definitional information defining the block comprises a start address and a mask size.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the definitional information defining the block further comprises a name assigned to the block and one or more of an address type for the plurality of related network addresses comprising the block and a status for the block.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the attribute indicates whether the related network addresses comprising the block are free or allocated.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the portion of the networking address space depicted by the map is based on a start address and a mask size received from a user of the computer system.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the each grid space in the map represents a single network address.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein a size and a position of the outlining rectangle bounding the one or more adjacent grid spaces representing the plurality of network addresses comprising the block is determined by classless inter-domain routing (“CIDR”) arithmetic.
8. A computer system for displaying blocks of addresses in a map of an address space, comprising:
a display device;
a storage medium containing definitional information defining the blocks of addresses, each of the blocks of addresses comprising a plurality of addresses administered as a unit and the definitional information comprising a start address and a mask size for each of the blocks of addresses;
a computer processor operatively connected to the storage medium and the display device; and
a display module operative to execute on the computer processor, causing the computer processor to
access the definitional information,
render the map depicting a portion of the address space to the display device, the map comprising an N×N grid of individual grid spaces, wherein each grid space represents one or more individual addresses in the address space, and
render an outlining rectangle bounding adjacent grid spaces representing the addresses comprising one of the blocks of addresses to the display device within the map, and wherein the adjacent grid spaces bounded by the outlining rectangle contain a visual indicator representing a value for an attribute of the addresses comprising the one of the blocks of addresses.