network-order

Sealed generic function

network-order address => network-order-address 

Returns the value of the numeric address in network order. The argument is a general instance of <numeric-address>. The class of the object returned depends upon the particular subclass of the argument; the network-order method for <ipv4-numeric-address> returns an instance of <machine-word>.

Network order is big-endian byte order.

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System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000