<p>just want to share my use case if anyone has similar purpose:</p>
<p>I was using <code>mediaproxy</code> module and have own load balancing/failover outside of <code>kamailio</code>.<br>
the id for media server was <code>ip address string</code> which will be put into <code>media_relay_avp</code>.</p>
<p>so for the uniqueness, I just need to convert <code>ip address string</code> into <code>unsigned int</code> as media server id to issue command to.</p>
<p><code>int</code> variable only supports ip address that the first field is less than <code>127</code><br>
use <code>unsigned int</code> can easily convert ip string/int back and forth while keeping uniqueness.</p>

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