public class InterfaceAddress
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This class represents a Network Interface address. In short it's an IP address, a subnet mask and a broadcast address when the address is an IPv4 one. An IP address and a network prefix length in the case of IPv6 address.

See also:
java.net.NetworkInterface

Since:  1.6