Multicast Calculator

Last week I was diving into IP multicast and decided to write a multicast calculator in Python to reinforce multicast addressing schemes. When the script is ran, it prompts the user for an IP address. If an IPv4 or IPv6 multicast address is entered, the corresponding multicast MAC address is calculated and returned. If an

OSPF Autoconfiguration with Python

I find that sometimes when I want to lab up a specific scenario I have to do the same “router ospf 1234” and “network 198.51.blah.blah area blah” commands over and over just to get basic routing configured. Awhile ago I wrote an EIGRP auto configuration script but at that time I didn’t know about the