Hello to forum members, Here's my issue : I have IPs stored in a database but those are "little endian byte order" encoded and the field type of the BDD is BigInt (similar to Ruby's BigNum). How could I get back my human readable IP ? I've been digging around 'unpack' for a while now but without success. Here's an example : BigNum stored in the database : 3232235797 Resulting IP : 192.168.1.21 Could you give me some ideas or code ? I'm really stucked ! Thanks for all, Liteo -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.