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+# Copyright 2018 VyOS maintainers and contributors <maintainers@vyos.io>
+#
+# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+import netifaces
+import ipaddress
+
+def is_ipv4(addr):
+    """
+    Check addr if it is an IPv4 address/network.
+
+    Return True/False
+    """
+    if ipaddress.ip_network(addr).version == 4:
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
+def is_ipv6(addr):
+    """
+    Check addr if it is an IPv6 address/network.
+
+    Return True/False
+    """
+    if ipaddress.ip_network(addr).version == 6:
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
+def is_addr_assigned(addr):
+    """
+    Verify if the given IPv4/IPv6 address is assigned to any interface on this system
+
+    Return True/False
+    """
+
+    # determine IP version (AF_INET or AF_INET6) depending on passed address
+    addr_type = netifaces.AF_INET
+    if is_ipv6(addr):
+        addr_type = netifaces.AF_INET6
+
+    for interface in netifaces.interfaces():
+        # check if the requested address type is configured at all
+        if addr_type in netifaces.ifaddresses(interface).keys():
+            # Check every IP address on this interface for a match
+            for ip in netifaces.ifaddresses(interface)[addr_type]:
+                # Check if it matches to the address requested
+                if ip['addr'] == addr:
+                    return True
+
+    return False
+