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+Reference
+=========
+
+The pages in this section contain technical description of various parts of netaddr machinery.
+
+netaddr provides support for:
+
+Layer 3 addresses
+
+- IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, subnets, masks, prefixes
+- iterating, slicing, sorting, summarizing and classifying IP networks
+- dealing with various ranges formats (CIDR, arbitrary ranges and globs, nmap)
+- set based operations (unions, intersections etc) over IP addresses and subnets
+- parsing a large variety of different formats and notations
+- looking up IANA IP block information
+- generating DNS reverse lookups
+- supernetting and subnetting
+
+Layer 2 addresses
+
+- representation and manipulation MAC addresses and EUI-64 identifiers
+- looking up IEEE organisational information (OUI, IAB)
+- generating derived IPv6 addresses
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ reference/compatibility
+ api
+ changes
+ references
+ copyright
+ license