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Thanks jmw, seems to be working so far. Can you enlighten me to what the CompareTo() method is actually doing? How is it finding an IP if it's in a range.
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Thanks jmw, seems to be working so far. Can you enlighten me to what the CompareTo() method is actually doing? How is it finding an IP if it's in a range.

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CompareTo is a comparison method for objects that implement IComparable. &nbsp;It returns less than zero if the instance is less than the passed obj, 0 if they are the same and greater than zero if the instance is greater than the passed obj.<br />
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icomparable.compareto.aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icomparable.compareto.aspx</a>
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CompareTo is a comparison method for objects that implement IComparable.  It returns less than zero if the instance is less than the passed obj, 0 if they are the same and greater than zero if the instance is greater than the passed obj.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icomparable.compareto.aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icomparable.compareto.aspx]

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I want to allow access to a certain folder based on IP address. I can get the IP address from user and check it and all that good stuff. <br />
The problem is I have a table that holds 2 values, starting IP and ending IP, the majority of these are ranges, not single IP's. &nbsp; How can I check the single IP I get programatically against the table of IP ranges to authenticate a user? 
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I want to allow access to a certain folder based on IP address. I can get the IP address from user and check it and all that good stuff. 
The problem is I have a table that holds 2 values, starting IP and ending IP, the majority of these are ranges, not single IP's.   How can I check the single IP I get programatically against the table of IP ranges to authenticate a user? 

compare single ip to ip range

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