Re: IP Address support in spreadsheets?

[Josh Reynolds via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Web based database? What about NetBox?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 1:31 PM Bryan Fields via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Has anyone found a solution to represent IPv4 addresses in a spreadsheet,
> preferably Google Sheets?  I'm not here to debate the use of spreadsheets
> for
> tracking IP addresses, just find something better than storing v4 dotted
> decimal as text in a spreadsheet.  We don't need v6 at this time; we're
> using
> a spreadsheet for tracking addressing, v6 is beyond us.
>
> At minimum we need to store it as a 32 bit INT, and display as dotted
> decimal.
>   If there's some way to make it aware of subnet slash notation, so much
> the
> better.  I'm a bit at a loss as to why there's no IPv4 number format with
> how
> often spreadsheets are the source of truth in some rather large service
> providers.
>
> Again, not looking for non-spreadsheet solutions to this, and ideally a
> web
> interface spreadsheet would be best for sharing.  We don't need a real
> database if it's on the web :-)
>
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