[Info-vax] What is definition of a network for TCPIP SET /ACCEPT=NETWORK?

[Steven Schweda]

> The site has 7 full IP ranges to allow (this is just 3). How would you
> enter them? 

   Define "full IP range".  But first:

      tcpip show version

      tcpip show service SSH /full

   How _I_ would specify them would depend on what they actually are. 
For example, "a.b.242.0:255.255.255.0,a.b.243.0:255.255.255.0" might
have been reduced to "a.b.242.0:255.255.254.0".  But, before I did
anything, I'd clean out what's there now:

      set service SSH /accept = nonetworks = * 

   My accept/reject script files include helpful(-to-me) comments like
these:

! Popular netmasks:
!
! 11111111 /8 = 255  11111110 /7 = 254  11111100 /6 = 252  11111000 /5 = 248
!
! 11110000 /4 = 240  11100000 /3 = 224  11000000 /2 = 192  10000000 /1 = 128

> The limit is 16 which I took to mean 16 network specifications not 16
>  IPs?

   Define "IPs".

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

   I'd expect it to take 16 subnet specifications, but they do
accumulate.

   I generally do /reject, not /accept, but my scripts all start with
commands like:

      set service XXXX /reject = nohost = *
      set service XXXX /reject = nonetworks = *

and then build upon the resulting clean slates.  I don't hit any
unexpected limits.  (But higher limits would be helpful to me.)