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join.ipaddresses(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual join.ipaddresses(4) NAME join.ipaddresses - Acceptable formats for string representations of IP addresses DESCRIPTION A character string representation of an IP address, as used within JOIN, is written as one, two, three or four numeric fields with a pe- riod, '.', separating each field, and without interleaving whitespace. Each field corresponds to an octet, so can have a value in the range 0..255 (decimal). Each of the octets may be written as a decimal, oc- tal, or hexadecimal number, and there is no requirement that each octet have the same radix. Octal values commence with a leading zero '0'; hex values commence with either '0x' or '0X'. When an address is written with fewer than four octets, the missing bytes are interpolated according to the following scheme, which shows how they would have been written with all four octets present: aaa.bbb.ddd aaa.bbb.0.ddd aaa.ddd aaa.0.0.ddd ddd 0.0.0.ddd EXAMPLES 192.245.139.33 0xc0.245.139.041 192.33 0x21 RELATED INFORMATION Functions: inet_addr(3). Information: dhcp(7) delim off join.ipaddresses(4)