Name

acltest - tool to validate access control lists

Synopsis

groudump file

Description

The acltest tool reads the acl specified by file and them prompts the user to give IP-Addresses to test. It then tells whether the given address is covered by the acl or not.

Example

With the following access control list, test-acl

snert!233> cat test-acl
# comment line
193.141.40.0/24
193.141.89.1
1.2.3.4 255.255.255.255

you will see the following:

snert!234> ./acltest test-acl
Enter test addresses - empty line to quit --> 1.2.3.4
in acl
--> 1.2.3.5
not in acl
--> 193.141.89.2
not in acl
--> 193.141.40.8
in acl

See Also

acl(3) , mcrcv(8) , yawgmoth(8) , mcntp(5)

History

The acltest command is part of the diploma thesis Transport of NetNews via IP-multicast

Author

Heiko W.Rupp (hwr@pilhuhn.de)

Bugs

None known yet

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