no wonder i fuckin failed my networking course 4 times (not a joke, that's like my damn kryptonite in my damn field:S)
well i don't know to that extent, but what i do know is that people, who have multiple ip addresses logged to stats, usually 2-3 of them are almost identical, with only difference in the last digits.
and as far as i know, it WILL help at least filtering some ips or put a list of people that i can take a look at manually... just saves me time.
brett and i already caught like 2-3 bypassers (proven on other counts too) just by running a crapton of ip searches and discover that only the last digit was different, and we could have spotted that a long time ago had we been able to search by the first few numbers.
hell, catching haxor's marijuana account was greatly helped by the location of his ip compared to his other accounts.
now i could be wrong on some networking facts, because it's not my forte, but i would definitely appreciate the functionality i'm requesting, if possible?