Net-IP-CMatch version 0.02
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NAME
Net::IP::CMatch - Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges with
C.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
perl >= 5.6.1
SYNOPSIS
use Net::IP::CMatch;
my $match = match_ip( $ip_addr, $match_ip1, $match_ip2, ... );
DESCRIPTION
Net::IP::CMatch is based upon, and does the same thing as
Net::IP::Match. The unconditionally exported subroutine 'match_ip'
determines if the ip to match ( first argument ) matches any of the
subsequent ip arguments. Match arguments may be absolute quads, as
'127.0.0.1', or contain mask bits as '111.245.76.248/29'. A true return
value indicates a match. It was written in C, rather than a macro,
preprocessed through Perl's source filter mechanism ( as is
Net::IP::Match ), so that the ip arguments could be traditional perl
scalars. The C code is lean and mean ( IMHO ).
Example in Apache/mod_perl
I use this module in my Apache server's mod_perl DB logging script to
determine if an incoming IP is 'remote' or 'local'. First, I set up some
variables in httpd.conf:
PerlSetvar DBILogger_local_ips '222.234.52.192/29'
PerlAddvar DBILogger_local_ips '111.245.76.248/29'
PerlAddvar DBILogger_local_ips '10.0.0.0/24'
PerlAddvar DBILogger_local_ips '172.16.0.0/12'
PerlAddvar DBILogger_local_ips '192.168.0.0/16'
PerlAddvar DBILogger_local_ips '127.0.0.1'
These are the ip addresses I want to be considered local. In the
mod_perl module:
my @local_ips = $r->dir_config( "DBILogger_local_ips" );
my $local = match_ip( $incoming_ip, @local_ips );
Now $local is just that, and I set the database key accordingly.
EXPORT
'match_ip', unconditionally.
SEE ALSO
Net::IP::Match by Marcel Gr�nauer.
AUTHOR
Beau E. Cox, <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2004 by Beau E. Cox
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.1 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
