Perfect opportunity for a Perl script

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Premus [SMTP:lpremus AT METLIFE DOT COM]
> Sent: Saturday, 6 March 1999 5:03
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      comparing address ranges in a script
>
> Is it possible to do a comparison of say an IP address to an IP address
> range
> (similiar to what would be defined in a seed file) within a script?  For
> example, I want to compare the following:
>
> address range  address
> 10.20.*.1-100       10.20.7.34     matches
> 10.7.1-7.*          10.7.9.20 doesn't match
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