What is the biggest IP range you can block?

You can block /8 (16,777,216 IPs) though I would recommend /16 (65,536 IPs) or less unless you are trying to block an entire country and know that the entire /8 range is exclusive to that country.

The correct way to block full networks is with zeros in the IP:  192.0.0.0/16 (192 is the first three of the IP network you want to block.

CIDR

Subnet Mask

Total IPs

Usable IPs

/32 255.255.255.255 1 1
/31 255.255.255.254 2 0
/30 255.255.255.252 4 2
/29 255.255.255.248 8 6
/28 255.255.255.240 16 14
/27 255.255.255.224 32 30
/26 255.255.255.192 64 62
/25 255.255.255.128 128 126
/24 255.255.255.0 256 254
/23 255.255.254.0 512 510
/22 255.255.252.0 1024 1022
/21 255.255.248.0 2048 2046
/20 255.255.240.0 4096 4094
/19 255.255.224.0 8192 8190
/18 255.255.192.0 16,384 16,382
/17 255.255.128.0 32,768 32,766
/16 255.255.0.0 65,536 65,534
/15 255.254.0.0 131,072 131,070
/14 255.252.0.0 262,144 262,142
/13 255.248.0.0 524,288 524,286
/12 255.240.0.0 1,048,576 1,048,574
/11 255.224.0.0 2,097,152 2,097,150
/10 255.192.0.0 4,194,304 4,194,302
/9 255.128.0.0 8,388,608 8,388,606
/8 255.0.0.0 16,777,216 16,777,214
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