SQLIPPOOL/IPPOOL prefix/range format

[rsg]

Hi,

SQLIPPOOL requires, maintenance of an IP address table carrying individual IPs

Is there a way to handle IP prefixes (prefix/range format) so that in
large networks having many different networks could main and utilze
this effectively.

For example it would be cumbersome if it happens to populate a table
with each IP of 10.10.0.0/16.

The other query is how would it affect the performance if it happens
to scan through the entire table during new ip assignment of a
client(e.g. mobile device). On the contrary, Perl has Net::IP for
handling ip prefixes which may be better in performance when it comes
to large deployments.

What is your opinion please ? Is there a way/module to handle this?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts/assistance.

rg