inet4

The inet4 plugin provides the INET4 data type, allowing for efficient native storage and manipulation of IPv4 addresses as 4-byte binary strings.

This plugin implements the inet4 data type and functions used by this data type, like conversions.

For plugin version and maturity level, see this page.

This plugin is built in to MariaDB Server. It cannot be disabled.

inet4 is a data type plugin. It can be used in stored procedures as a variable type and as a data type for table columns.