On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Feizhou wrote: > I don't know if such a question has been asked before and the archive > didn't provide a search button... > > I have a whole bunch of ips/cidrs that I want to apply the rule to. > > Is there any way to insert one rule where the -s would be able to look > up a table (btree/hash/cdb whatever) that contains those ips/cidrs > instead of insert gazillion rules? Yes, you can use either the ippool or the ipset extensions. ippool is capable to store up to the number of IP addresses of a full B class network. ippool can store network addresses as well and supports random adressess/networks too. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary