Net-IP-Match-XS version 0.03 ============================ NAME Net::IP::Match::XS - 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::Match::XS; my $match = match_ip( $ip_addr, $match_ip1, $match_ip2, ... ); DESCRIPTION Net::IP::Match::XS 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 Grünauer. AUTHOR Beau E. Cox, 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.