How to check if an IP address is within a particular subnet

Question

I have a subnet in the format 10.132.0.0/20 and an IP address from the ASP.Net request object.

Is there a .NET framework function to check to see if the IP address i

Answer 1

The solution is to convert the IP Address into bytes using System.Net.IPAddress and perform bitwise comparisons on the address, subnet, and mask octets.

The Binary AND Operator & copies a bit to the result if it exists in both operands.

The code:

using System.Net;   // Used to access IPAddress

bool IsAddressOnSubnet(string address, string subnet, string mask)
{
    try
    {
        IPAddress Address = IPAddress.Parse(address);
        IPAddress Subnet = IPAddress.Parse(subnet);
        IPAddress Mask = IPAddress.Parse(mask);            

        Byte[] addressOctets = Address.GetAddressBytes();
        Byte[] subnetOctets = Mask.GetAddressBytes();
        Byte[] networkOctets = Subnet.GetAddressBytes();

        return
            ((networkOctets[0] & subnetOctets[0]) == (addressOctets[0] & subnetOctets[0])) &&
            ((networkOctets[1] & subnetOctets[1]) == (addressOctets[1] & subnetOctets[1])) &&
            ((networkOctets[2] & subnetOctets[2]) == (addressOctets[2] & subnetOctets[2])) &&
            ((networkOctets[3] & subnetOctets[3]) == (addressOctets[3] & subnetOctets[3]));
    }
    catch (System.Exception ex)
    {
        return false;                
    }
}

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