-Specifies that in addition to public key authentication, the canonical name
-of the remote host must be present in the comma-separated list of
-patterns
-.Pf ( Ql *
-and
-.Ql \&?
-serve as wildcards).
-The list may also contain
-patterns negated by prefixing them with
-.Ql \&! ;
-if the canonical host name matches a negated pattern, the key is not accepted.
-The purpose
-of this option is to optionally increase security: public key authentication
-by itself does not trust the network or name servers or anything (but
-the key); however, if somebody somehow steals the key, the key
+Specifies that in addition to public key authentication, either the canonical
+name of the remote host or its IP address must be present in the
+comma-separated list of patterns.
+See
+.Sx PATTERNS
+in
+.Xr ssh_config 5
+for more information on patterns.
+.Pp
+In addition to the wildcard matching that may be applied to hostnames or
+addresses, a
+.Cm from
+stanza may match IP addresses using CIDR address/masklen notation.
+.Pp
+The purpose of this option is to optionally increase security: public key
+authentication by itself does not trust the network or name servers or
+anything (but the key); however, if somebody somehow steals the key, the key