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From: "Julius Volz" <julius.volz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there any function similar to inet_ntoa() in Kernel or NetFilter ?
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:08:06 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Roar Bj=F8rgum Rotvik <roarbr@tihlde.=
org> wrote:
> Kunsheng Chen wrote:
>> I am doing a project similar to iptable using netfilter, currently I=
 want
>> to convert a IP address from 'long int' back to dotted address.
>>
>> I don't know whether there is some functions inside kernel or netfil=
ter
>> that could make that like using inet_ntoa() in <arpa/inet.h>
>
> How about NIPQUAD and NIPQUAD_FMT (for IPv4):
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.27.6/include/linux/kernel.h#L324
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.27.6/include/linux/kernel.h#L319

In the latest tree, there are now "%pI4" and "%pI6" format options for =
printk.

=46or example:

printk(KERN_DEBUG "Address: %pI4\n", &v4_addr);

Julius