IP Groups: Continue to support IP Groups for v4.0 and add better support for specifying ranges such as subnets. #700
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Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Redmine Issue: 4156, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/4156
Original Date: 2014-06-25
Original Assignee: Gustavo Durand
Retaining IP Group authentication was mentioned as being a requirement by a current partner.
Note: there are two types of notation we might consider supporting: subnetwork notation and CIDR notation.
This was originally requested here:
#60969: v2.0 - IP Groups: Need to support adding ip addresses by ranges that don't span entire octet.
https://help.hmdc.harvard.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=60969
I recently needed to add some large ip address ranges that did not
cover the entire octet (number between the decimals).
For example: 199.94.0.-199.94.47. required me to enter 48 individual
addresses.
Then recently here:
#180843: Feature request: support for subnet notation when defining IP groups
https://help.hmdc.harvard.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=180843
Not sure if this is on the agenda at all, and it's a minor point, but it
would be really useful to be able to define IP groups using subnet
notation rather than just * as a wildcard.
Our use case is, we have some universities with multiple class C
networks in the middle of a range. (e.g. 134.117.10-135). No easy way to
input this at present.