+
+--- Substract specified amount of hosts from this instance.
+-- @param amount Number of hosts to substract from this instance
+-- @return CIDR representing the new address or nil on underflow error
+-- @see add
+function cidr.sub( self, amount )
+ local shorts = { bit.rshift(amount, 16), bit.band(amount, 0xFFFF) }
+ local data = { unpack(self[2]) }
+
+ for pos = #data, 1, -1 do
+ local sub = ( #shorts > 0 ) and table.remove( shorts, #shorts ) or 0
+ if ( data[pos] - sub ) < 0 then
+ data[pos] = ( sub - data[pos] ) % 0xFFFF
+ if pos > 1 then
+ data[pos-1] = data[pos-1] - ( sub + data[pos] )
+ else
+ return nil
+ end
+ else
+ data[pos] = data[pos] - sub
+ end
+ end
+
+ return __bless({ self[1], data, self[3] })
+end