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CIDR Blocks in a lookup table

xvxt006
Contributor

Hi,

i have CSV file for a IP lookups. Question is can i use a CIDR block in the csv file? and when search time will splunk be able to see all the individual IPs from that Blcok.

Companyname IP
Company XXX 63.122.163.0/27
Company YYY 63.123.345.23

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes you can. If you look at the lookup configuration section in the transforms.conf file documentation, you'll see there is a setting match_type which you can set to CIDR(IP) or CIDR(fieldname) in general.

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xvxt006
Contributor

Can i specify both CIDR blocks and regualr IPs in the same file in the same file if i have match_type as CIDR(IP)..

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xvxt006
Contributor

Thank you. i will look into the documentation.

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