Ranges Plugin

[dmulyalin]

Looking to get a feedback on the idea of creating Ranges plugin to document any arbitrary (numerical, alphabetical, hybrid) ranges in Netbox, use cases could be

1. BGP Community Ranges
2. MPLS Labels and MPLS SID ranges
3. VXLAN VNI Ranges
4. GRE/IPSEC/MPLS-TE Tunnel interface names Ranges
5. IGP Process names ranges
6. L3VPN RD Ranges

Many aspects on network device configurations depend on using ranges of some sort, in many cases they need to globally/site/device/interface unique, tracking those allocations and sourcing next available values is important aspect of network management. No functionality exists in Netbox that offers capability to document such artifacts, ranges plugin would allow to address that.

Proposed tables

Range Roles
Ranges
Allocations

Range Types

1. Numerical
2. Alphabetic
3. Number and Character Sequences - e.g. a0, a1 - z9
4. Separator or Compound Sequences - <1-1234>:<100-200> or <1-255>.<1-255>.<1-255>.<1-255> where ':' and '.' are separators