8.2.1.9.3 IPAddress

The IPAddress condition makes it possible to validate the associated against an IP number and a mask, to determine if the string in the field is an acceptable IPv4 address, see Figure 149.

Figure 149 IP Address

The format used for IP addresses is n.n.n.n/x, where:

n is a part of the IP address in the range 0–255
x is the mask, in the range 1–32

The IP mask can be described exactly, using a wildcard, or using the Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) format.

Some IPv4 examples of the input accepted in this condition are laid out below.

Exact match: An exact match is to be used when an exact IP address must be compared.
```
136.0.0.32
```
CIDR: Using a CIDR mask that the 8 most significant bits for the address given are used for comparison. In this example, an IP address that starts with 123 it is considered as a match.
```
123.0.0.32/8
```
Wildcard Notation: The IP address can be listed using a wildcard (*), where the wildcard represents any values after its insertion.
```
136.* is the same as 136.0.0.0/8,  136.225.* is the same as 136.225.0.0/16  and 135.225.10.* is the same as 136.225.10.0/24
```