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Set collection of hosts

Is it possible to make a single host entry that covers multiple IPs? What I'm looking to do is create a host entry that covers a small range such as 192.168.1.5-10. This would be for ease of management since it is such a pain to create all of the individual hosts and then having to drag and drop all of them into an exclusion rule one by one.

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0 drees over 18 years ago

Is there any reason you can't create a Network group which includes the individual hosts?

Another option would be to create a DNS name with multiple A records matching those hosts.
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0 Scott_Klassen over 18 years ago in reply to drees

Thanks for cluing me in on the Network group Drees. Still wish I could create a single host range rather than all the individual definition entries. [:)]
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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

Well, you can do that as long as all the hosts you want to group fall into a normal network mask range. [:)]
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0 Scott_Klassen over 18 years ago in reply to drees

Cool. So what would be the method for doing so? Would I just create a host definition and in the address field put 192.168.1.5-10 or would it be 192.168.1.5:10? Or am I misconstruing your last post?
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0 KKnecht over 18 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

drees meant you could do some clever subnetting, for example create
MySubnet   192.168.1.0 / 29  (= 255.255.255.248)

This would result in this:
MySubnet(Network):   192.168.1.0
MySubnet(Adresses:   192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.6
MySubnet(Broadcast): 192.168.1.7
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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to KKnecht

Yep, Karsten explained it much better than I did. [:)]
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0 Scott_Klassen over 18 years ago in reply to drees

Thanks, I'll give that a whirl. I actually tried this once before, but had a few problems. I think that I'd forgotten to extend my range out by two (one at the beginning for network and the other at the end for broadcasts).
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