Kibana search with partial match

Hi

I have a field called ipclient inside my properties. It is of string type because I was not able to change its type and by default if you create the index with log4net.elasticsearch it is set as string.
Anyway now I would like to do a search of all the ips that start with 10.20.1. but I am not able to do it. Is it possible? How?
Thanks.

The string type is not ideal, but it could still work if the field is not analyzed, or if you have a non-analyzed (perhaps named .raw) version of it.

Your best bet is probably to re-index the data and set the mapping correctly instead of using string though.