From 515645bb4dcfe204a3343de790e0c0f80892986d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Stretch <jstretch@digitalocean.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:29:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1620: Loosen IP address search filter to match all IPs
 that start with the given string

---
 netbox/ipam/filters.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/netbox/ipam/filters.py b/netbox/ipam/filters.py
index 05ab873a3..b8996c74b 100644
--- a/netbox/ipam/filters.py
+++ b/netbox/ipam/filters.py
@@ -267,12 +267,10 @@ class IPAddressFilter(CustomFieldFilterSet, django_filters.FilterSet):
     def search(self, queryset, name, value):
         if not value.strip():
             return queryset
-        qs_filter = Q(description__icontains=value)
-        try:
-            ipaddress = str(IPNetwork(value.strip()))
-            qs_filter |= Q(address__net_host=ipaddress)
-        except (AddrFormatError, ValueError):
-            pass
+        qs_filter = (
+            Q(description__icontains=value) |
+            Q(address__istartswith=value)
+        )
         return queryset.filter(qs_filter)
 
     def search_by_parent(self, queryset, name, value):