add multicast and loopback checks

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ipaddress/ipv4.rb b/lib/ipaddress/ipv4.rb
index 38afbb1..6437810 100644
--- a/lib/ipaddress/ipv4.rb
+++ b/lib/ipaddress/ipv4.rb
@@ -599,6 +599,34 @@ module IPAddress;
     end
 
     #
+    # Checks if an IPv4 address objects belongs
+    # to a multicast network RFC3171
+    #
+    # Example:
+    #
+    #   ip = IPAddress "224.0.0.0/4"
+    #   ip.multicast?
+    #     #=> true
+    #    
+    def multicast?
+      [self.class.new("224.0.0.0/4")].any? {|i| i.include? self}
+    end
+
+    #
+    # Checks if an IPv4 address objects belongs
+    # to a loopback network RFC1122
+    #
+    # Example:
+    #
+    #   ip = IPAddress "127.0.0.1"
+    #   ip.loopback?
+    #     #=> true
+    #    
+    def loopback?
+      [self.class.new("127.0.0.0/8")].any? {|i| i.include? self}
+    end
+
+    #
     # Returns the IP address in in-addr.arpa format
     # for DNS lookups
     #