Re: Function to read IP address in dot format

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:05:10 -0700 (PDT) linux lover wrote:

| 
| Hello,
|           what is the function to read IP address in
| kernel code as human readable dot quad format? IP
| address are unsigned int's in ip.h file as
|         __u32   saddr;
|         __u32   daddr;
|          In ip_build_xmit ip header gets IP addresses
| from rtable struct as
| iph->saddr=rt->rt_src;
| iph->daddr=rt->rt_dst;
|            Now if i want to know to which ip current
| packet is being sent i am using printks but it prints
| iph->saddr in int format not in user readable format.
| how to do that?

Look at the NIPQUAD() macro in include/linux/kernel.h
and at some example uses of it.

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~Randy