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<tag><label id="type-ip">ip</tag>
This type can hold a single IP address. Depending on the compile-time
configuration of BIRD you are using, it is either an IPv4 or IPv6
- address. IP addresses are written in the standard notation
+ address; this may be checked by <cf>.is_ip4</cf> which returns <cf/bool/.
+ IP addresses are written in the standard notation
(<cf/10.20.30.40/ or <cf/fec0:3:4::1/). You can apply special operator
<cf>.mask(<M>num</M>)</cf> on values of type ip. It masks out all but
first <cf><M>num</M></cf> bits from the IP address. So