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1.\" $OpenBSD: inet_net.3,v 1.12 2005/12/30 20:45:59 claudio Exp $
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38.Dd June 18, 1997
39.Dt INET_NET 3
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm inet_net_ntop ,
43.Nm inet_net_pton
44.Nd Internet network number manipulation routines
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
47.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
48.Fd #include <netinet/in.h>
49.Fd #include <arpa/inet.h>
50.Ft char *
51.Fn inet_net_ntop "int af" "const void *src" "int bits" "char *dst" "size_t size"
52.Ft int
53.Fn inet_net_pton "int af" "const char *src" "void *dst" "size_t size"
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Fn inet_net_ntop
57function converts an Internet network number from network format (usually a
58.Li struct in_addr
59or some other binary form, in network byte order) to CIDR presentation format
60(suitable for external display purposes).
61.Fa bits
62is the number of bits in
63.Fa src
64that are the network number.
65It returns
66.Dv NULL
67if a system error occurs (in which case,
68.Va errno
69will have been set), or it returns a pointer to the destination string.
70.Pp
71The
72.Fn inet_net_pton
73function converts a presentation format Internet network number (that is,
74printable form as held in a character string) to network format (usually a
75.Li struct in_addr
76or some other internal binary representation, in network byte order).
77It returns the number of bits (either computed based on the class, or
78specified with /CIDR), or \-1 if a failure occurred
79(in which case
80.Va errno
81will have been set.
82It will be set to
83.Er ENOENT
84if the Internet network number was not valid).
85.Pp
86Caution:
87The
88.Fa dst
89field should be zeroed before calling
90.Fn inet_net_pton
91as the function will only fill the number of bytes necessary to
92encode the network number in network byte order.
93.Pp
94The only value for
95.Fa af
96currently supported is
97.Dv AF_INET .
98.Fa size
99is the size of the result buffer
100.Fa dst .
101.Sh NETWORK NUMBERS (IP VERSION 4)
102The external representation of Internet network numbers may be specified in
103one of the following forms:
104.Bd -literal -offset indent
105a
106a.b
107a.b.c
108a.b.c.d
109.Ed
110.Pp
111Any of the above four forms may have
112.Dq Li /bits
113appended where
114.Dq Li bits
115is in the range
116.Li 0-32
117and is used to explicitly specify the number of bits in the network address.
118When
119.Dq Li /bits
120is not specified the number of bits in the network address is calculated
121as the larger of the number of bits in the class to which the address
122belongs and the number of bits provided rounded up modulo 8.
123Examples:
124.Pp
125.Bl -tag -width 10.1.2.3/24 -offset indent -compact
126.It Li 10
127an 8-bit network number (class A), value
128.Li 10.0.0.0 .
129.It Li 192
130a 24-bit network number (class C), value
131.Li 192.0.0.0 .
132.It Li 10.10
133a 16-bit network number, value
134.Li 10.10.0.0 .
135.It Li 10.1.2
136a 24-bit network number, value
137.Li 10.1.2.0 .
138.It Li 10.1.2.3
139a 32-bit network number, value
140.Li 10.1.2.3 .
141.It Li 10.1.2.3/24
142a 24-bit network number (explicit), value
143.Li 10.1.2.3 .
144.El
145.Pp
146Note that when the number of bits is specified using
147.Dq Li /bits
148notation, the value of the address still includes all bits supplied
149in the external representation, even those bits which are the host
150part of an Internet address.
151Also, unlike
152.Xr inet_pton 3
153where the external representation is assumed to be a host address, the
154external representation for
155.Fn inet_net_pton
156is assumed to be a network address.
157Thus
158.Dq Li 10.1
159is assumed to be
160.Dq Li 10.1.0.0
161not
162.Dq Li 10.0.0.1
163.Pp
164All numbers supplied as
165.Dq parts
166in a
167.Ql \&.
168notation
169may be decimal, octal, or hexadecimal, as specified
170in the C language (i.e., a leading 0x or 0X implies
171hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal;
172otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
173.Sh SEE ALSO
174.Xr byteorder 3 ,
175.Xr inet 3 ,
176.Xr inet_pton 3 ,
177.Xr networks 5
178.Sh HISTORY
179The
180.Nm inet_net_ntop
181and
182.Nm inet_net_pton
183functions first appeared in BIND 4.9.4.