Jens,
Made the assumption that since it is a class 'A' address that it is probably subnet'd with a class 'B' mask.

Dax,
Perhaps you missed the subtle hit in my post. You cannot use wildcards. You can do string compares or, if converted to integer with Val(), number compares.
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