[Devel] [ openser-Bugs-1653584 ] lcr broken on big endian platforms

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi,

as the fix implies anyhow a change, I agree with Juha and it should be 
switched to IP as string.

regards,
bogdan

Juha Heinanen wrote:
> ovidiu,
>
> are you proposing to change the way ip address is encoded in gw table's
> ip_address column?
>
> if so, i.e., if people need to make change to the values in ip_address
> column, then a better solution would be to store ip address as a doted
> string.  it was stored as an encoded unsigned int for performance
> reasons in the old non-caching implementation of load_gws function.
>
> now when there is only caching implementation of load_gws, there is no
> reason anymore to keep the ip addresses binary encoded in the
> database.
>
> -- juha
>
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