Programming Homework Help

A network address is made up of 4 sections – each an integer from 0-255. Each section is separated by a period (.) when shown to the user. Depending on the class of the address, one or more sections identify the network and one or more sections identify the host within the network. For an IP addresses from Class A, the first 8 bits (the first number) represent the network part, while the remaining 24 bits (last 3 numbers) represent the host part. For Class B, the first 16 bits (the first two numbers) represent the network part, while the remaining 16 bits (last 2 numbers) represent the host part. For Class C, the first 24 bits represent the network part (the first 3 numbers), while the remaining 8 bits (the last number) represent the host part. To idenfity which class a network is, we can look at the first number.

• A: 0-127
• B: 128-191
• C: 192-223
• D: 224-239
• E: 240-255

For this assignment, you will read in a file of network addresses (using scanf and file redirection) and print out some statistics about the networks in the file. You should ignore Class D and Class E networks. Your program will also take in a command line argument indicating the number of network addresses to be processed.

The statistics you must compute are:

• The number of Class A, Class B, and Class C networks
• For each of Class A, Class B, and Class C, the network with the most hosts and the number of hosts it contains.

In order to help you develop your program, here is a rough idea of how you might structure your program.

1. Convert the command line argument into an int. If there is no command line argument, print an error and end the program. This argument is the number of network addresses that will be in the file.
2. Read each address into a 2 dimensional array of 4 unsigned chars. The size of the first array dimension is the command line argument. (Note: you can use the int data type instead, but you will lose 5 points. If you feel more comfortable with int, you could write your program with int first and change it to unsigned char after it is working.)
3. Sort the array. (You will need to implement a sorting algorithm of your choice.)
4. Use the sorted array to compute the information you need.

Sample input and output

There are a number of sample input files in the /public/pgm1 directory.

Here is what your output should look like when you run your program on the inp17.txt, inp2000.txt, inp5000.txt, and inp8000.txt sample files.

<code>[program1]$ ./pg1 17 < inp17.txt 
Class A has 5 networks
Largest A network is 106 with 3 hosts
Class B has 5 networks
Largest B network is 137.249 with 2 hosts
Class C has 2 networks
Largest C network is 215.116.26 with 2 hosts
[program1]$ ./pg1 2000 < inp2000.txt 
Class A has 128 networks
Largest A network is 38 with 16 hosts
Class B has 484 networks
Largest B network is 129.74 with 2 hosts
Class C has 256 networks
All C networks have only 1 host
[program1]$ ./pg1 5000 < inp5000.txt 
Class A has 128 networks
Largest A network is 95 with 35 hosts
Class B has 1234 networks
Largest B network is 144.40 with 3 hosts
Class C has 640 networks
All C networks have only 1 host
[program1]$ ./pg1 8000 < inp8000.txt 
Class A has 128 networks
Largest A network is 106 with 50 hosts
Class B has 1961 networks
Largest B network is 141.175 with 4 hosts
Class C has 987 networks
Largest C network is 216.24.49 with 2 hosts

</code>

input files

inp10.txt, inp17.txt, inp2000.txt, inp500.txt, inp800.txt.i

inpa.txt

64.113.134.35

102.130.129.146

81.162.78.0

19.204.25.222

106.61.236.67

106.71.236.60

106.81.240.63

inpb.txt

168.12.110.25

137.249.183.201

168.14.111.27

168.17.111.27

137.249.111.202

137.246.111.202

inpc.txt

217.158.91.183

215.116.26.223

245.124.138.157

215.116.26.220

Hints

• If you prefer, you can write your entire program in one single file and just separate it into four different files before you turn it in.
• Print an unsigned char using the placeholder %hhu.
• Start early!

Requirements

• Write your program in a file called program1.c in your csci112-firstname-lastname/programs/program1/ directory.
• You must use at least three functions in addition to main. Each should be stored in a separate file. (If you use more than four total functions, you can use four or more files.)
• Since the network addresses are made up of integers between 0 and 255, use the unsigned char data type to store them instead of int. This way, they only take 1 byte (8 bits) instead of 4 bytes, meaning that your program will take only a quarter of the memory.
• You must use a makefile to compile and link your separate files.
• You may not use global variables.
• Your output formatting must match the example. Use a tool like diffchecker to compare your output with the sample output. Don’t worry about trailing spaces.

• comments explaining what your program does
• code is indented so that it is readable
• there are no global variables
• compiles successfully with -Wall – no warnings
• successfully reads in and uses a command line parameter
• has error msg if no command line parameter
• reads all input into a 2 dimensional array of size command line number x 4
• the array is of unsigned char data type
• compiles and links with makefile
• four functions are stored in different files
• computes the number of networks for class A, B, C correctly.
• identifies the largest networks for class A, B, C correctly, prints the largest network, and prints the correct largest count
• sorts addresses in order to count them
• correctly implements a sorting algorithm