IPAddress Comparers¶
IP Addresses are just numbers. Numbers are comparable. Some are bigger, some are smaller, some are even equal.
DefaultIPAddressComparer¶
Note
the DefaultIPAddressComparer
will gladly compare IPAddress
of differing address families.
The DefaultIPAddressComparer
extends Comparer<IPAddress>
. Its behavior is to first compare two IPAddress
objects via the IComparer<AddressFamily>
and then ordinally based on the IPAddress
big-endian unsigned integer value.
By default the DefaultAddressFamilyComparer is used to compare the address families of the addresses, but that may be overridden by providing your own IComparer<AddressFamily>
to the appropriate constructor
public DefaultIPAddressComparer()
public DefaultIPAddressComparer(IComparer<AddressFamily> addressFamilyComparer)