Subnets API

ESB3024 Router provides utilities to quickly match clients into subnets. Any combination of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can be used. To begin, a JSON file is needed, defining all subnets, e.g:

{
  "255.255.255.255/24": "area1",
  "255.255.255.255/16": "area2",
  "255.255.255.255/8": "area3",
  "90.90.1.3/16": "area4",
  "5.5.0.4/8": "area5",
  "2a02:2e02:9bc0::/48": "area6",
  "2a02:2e02:9bc0::/32": "area7",
  "2a02:2e02:9bc0::/16": "area8",
  "2a02:2e02:9de0::/44": "combined_area",
  "2a02:2e02:ada0::/44": "combined_area"
}

and PUT it to the endpoint :5001/v1/subnets or :5001/v2/subnets, the API version doesn’t matter for subnets:

curl -k -T subnets.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://router-host:5001/v1/subnets

Note that it is possible for several subnet CIDR strings to share the same label, effectively grouping them together.

This will load the subnets into the router which will then be usable within any Lua functions, accessed from the request and session tables respectively, e.g.

{
  "routing": {
    "id": "routing_table",
    "member_order": "sequential",
    "members": [
      {
        "id": "node1",
        "host_id": "host1",
        "weight_function": "return request.subnet == 'area1' and 1 or 0"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Subnet matching will use the client IP fetched from the request or session tables. When possible, the subnet with the longest matching subnet mask will be chosen, i.e. 255.255.255.255/28will be chosen over 255.255.255.255/24. If no matching subnets are found, the boolean value false will be returned.

NOTE: To use booleans in strings in Lua, calling tostring(bool) is required. Therefore, since subnet lookup might return false, the subnet call should be wrapped as: tostring(session.subnet) or tostring(requst.subnet).

Invalid ip-addresses will be omitted during subnet list construction accompanied by a message in the log displaying the invalid IP address.