rings: introduce AddrToU32() and AddrFromU32() helpers

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@jpi.io>

pkg/rings/cidr.go

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package rings
+
+import "net/netip"
+
+// AddrFromU32 converts a 32bit value into an IPv4
+// address.
+func AddrFromU32(v uint32) netip.Addr {
+	return AddrFrom4(
+		uint(v>>24),
+		uint(v>>16),
+		uint(v>>8),
+		uint(v),
+	)
+}
+
+// AddrFrom4 assembles an IPv4 address for 4 numbers.
+// each number is truncated to 8-bits.
+func AddrFrom4(a, b, c, d uint) netip.Addr {
+	return netip.AddrFrom4([4]byte{
+		byte(a & 0xff),
+		byte(b & 0xff),
+		byte(c & 0xff),
+		byte(d & 0xff),
+	})
+}
+
+// AddrToU32 converts a valid IPv4 address into it's
+// 32bit numeric representation.
+func AddrToU32(addr netip.Addr) (v uint32, ok bool) {
+	if addr.IsValid() {
+		if addr.Is4() || addr.Is4In6() {
+			a4 := addr.As4()
+
+			v = uint32(a4[0])<<24 +
+				uint32(a4[1])<<16 +
+				uint32(a4[2])<<8 +
+				uint32(a4[3])
+			return v, true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0, false
+}