/proc/net/igmp group address encoding

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've spotted some irritating IGMPv3/v2 compat problems on RHEL4, and 
I'm working on trying to see if these are due to bugs already fixed in 
latest kernels.  In the process, I started wondering about 
/proc/net/igmp format (on 2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686):

[psavola@lapps ~]$ more /proc/net/igmp
Idx	Device    : Count Querier	Group    Users Timer	Reporter
1	lo        :     0      V3
				010000E0     1 0:00000000		0
2	eth0      :     2      V3
				010000E0     1 0:00000000		0
3	wmaster0  :     3      V3
				010000E0     1 0:00000000		0
4	wlan0     :     3      V3
				010000E0     1 0:00000000		0

(The header and the fields seem to be a little off in the output..)

[psavola@lapps ~]$ netstat -gn | grep eth0
eth0            1      224.0.0.1
eth0            1      ff02::1

It appears "010000E0" is 224.0.0.1 encoded in in hex but 
right-to-left.  Other groups are similarly encoded.  /proc/net/igmp6 
is encoded in a human-friendly format.

Is this intentional?  Should this be changed, e.g. to flow 
left-to-right and use the dotted quad IP address format?

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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