Chapter 3. Address Conversion Functions
In the last chapter, you learned how various types of socket addresses could be allocated and initialized. These were all simple cases of initializing from a constant. Setting up an address from a C string with varying addresses requires more programming effort. In this chapter, you will focus on the additional issues pertaining to establishing Internet addresses, and learning about the functions that can assist you in this area.
In this chapter, you will learn about
Classes of internet addresses
IP netmasks
Private and reserved IP numbers
Functions that convert IP numbers
Before you get started however, it's a good time to review the design of an IP address. Then, you'll have a greater insight into the job that ...
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