Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Validating IPs?

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

what do you mean by "represent an IP address"? All
2**32 possible values are valid IP addresses.

Best regards
Michael

On Jan 27, 2005, at 19:46 Uhr, Alex Kirk wrote:

> Hello Again,
>
> Sorry if this is coming to the wrong list -- please let me know if 
> there's
> somewhere else I should be sending this message.
>
> Anyway, very quick question: is there a generally accepted way of 
> determining
> whether a sequence of four bytes in a tvbuff represent an IP address?
> inet_aton() isn't helpful, since it looks for a dotted decimal string, 
> and I'm
> not seeing much else I could use. I'm certain I'm not the first person 
> to have
> come across this, so pointers to existing docs that I may be missing 
> would be
> just as welcome as a quick "use this function."
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Kirk
>
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