Should the user's ip in the session table be stored in a hash?

Question

Hashing

There is a table of sessions in the database, where the session token and the IP to which it is attached are respectively stored. Is it worth storing the IP in a hash or can you get by with storing an integer value.

PS Is the conversion of IP to an integer value through INET_ATON() /INET_NTOA() or better through the php ip2long()/long2ip() function considered as a movie tone. Are sql queries cached when using INET_ATON()/INET_NTOA() ?

Answer 1

ip must be stored as a number if you have selections by range
, field type int + prohibit negative numbers in the column.
It is recommended to save via INET_ATON but it is also possible via ip2long