diff --git a/src/include/lwip/ip4_addr.h b/src/include/lwip/ip4_addr.h
index 0181d87f..a53257fe 100644
--- a/src/include/lwip/ip4_addr.h
+++ b/src/include/lwip/ip4_addr.h
@@ -118,22 +118,23 @@ struct netif;
 
 
 #if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
-/** Set an IP address given by the four byte-parts */
-#define IP4_ADDR(ipaddr, a,b,c,d) \
-        (ipaddr)->addr = ((u32_t)((a) & 0xff) << 24) | \
-                         ((u32_t)((b) & 0xff) << 16) | \
-                         ((u32_t)((c) & 0xff) << 8)  | \
-                          (u32_t)((d) & 0xff)
+/** Convert IP address given by the four byte-parts to an u32_t. */
+#define IP4_ADDR_MAKEU32(a,b,c,d) (((u32_t)((a) & 0xff) << 24) | \
+                                   ((u32_t)((b) & 0xff) << 16) | \
+                                   ((u32_t)((c) & 0xff) << 8)  | \
+                                    (u32_t)((d) & 0xff))
 #else
-/** Set an IP address given by the four byte-parts.
+/** Convert IP address given by the four byte-parts to an u32_t.
     Little-endian version that prevents the use of lwip_htonl. */
-#define IP4_ADDR(ipaddr, a,b,c,d) \
-        (ipaddr)->addr = ((u32_t)((d) & 0xff) << 24) | \
-                         ((u32_t)((c) & 0xff) << 16) | \
-                         ((u32_t)((b) & 0xff) << 8)  | \
-                          (u32_t)((a) & 0xff)
+#define IP4_ADDR_MAKEU32(a,b,c,d) (((u32_t)((d) & 0xff) << 24) | \
+                                   ((u32_t)((c) & 0xff) << 16) | \
+                                   ((u32_t)((b) & 0xff) << 8)  | \
+                                    (u32_t)((a) & 0xff))
 #endif
 
+/** Set an IP address given by the four byte-parts */
+#define IP4_ADDR(ipaddr, a,b,c,d)  (ipaddr)->addr = IP4_ADDR_MAKEU32(a,b,c,d)
+
 /** MEMCPY-like copying of IP addresses where addresses are known to be
  * 16-bit-aligned if the port is correctly configured (so a port could define
  * this to copying 2 u16_t's) - no NULL-pointer-checking needed. */
diff --git a/src/include/lwip/ip_addr.h b/src/include/lwip/ip_addr.h
index 127d4144..855c9788 100644
--- a/src/include/lwip/ip_addr.h
+++ b/src/include/lwip/ip_addr.h
@@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ extern const ip_addr_t ip_addr_any_type;
 
 /** @ingroup ip4addr */
 #define IPADDR4_INIT(u32val)          { { { { u32val, 0ul, 0ul, 0ul } } }, IPADDR_TYPE_V4 }
+/** @ingroup ip4addr */
+#define IPADDR4_INIT_BYTES(a,b,c,d)   IPADDR4_INIT(IP4_ADDR_MAKEU32(a,b,c,d))
 /** @ingroup ip6addr */
 #define IPADDR6_INIT(a, b, c, d)      { { { { a, b, c, d } } }, IPADDR_TYPE_V6 }
+/** @ingroup ip6addr */
+#define IPADDR6_INIT_HOST(a, b, c, d) { { { { PP_HTONL(a), PP_HTONL(b), PP_HTONL(c), PP_HTONL(d) } } }, IPADDR_TYPE_V6 }
 
 /** @ingroup ipaddr */
 #define IP_IS_ANY_TYPE_VAL(ipaddr)    (IP_GET_TYPE(&ipaddr) == IPADDR_TYPE_ANY)
@@ -237,6 +241,7 @@ int ipaddr_aton(const char *cp, ip_addr_t *addr);
 
 typedef ip4_addr_t ip_addr_t;
 #define IPADDR4_INIT(u32val)                    { u32val }
+#define IPADDR4_INIT_BYTES(a,b,c,d)             IPADDR4_INIT(IP4_ADDR_MAKEU32(a,b,c,d))
 #define IP_IS_V4_VAL(ipaddr)                    1
 #define IP_IS_V6_VAL(ipaddr)                    0
 #define IP_IS_V4(ipaddr)                        1
@@ -282,6 +287,7 @@ typedef ip4_addr_t ip_addr_t;
 
 typedef ip6_addr_t ip_addr_t;
 #define IPADDR6_INIT(a, b, c, d)                { { a, b, c, d } }
+#define IPADDR6_INIT_HOST(a, b, c, d)           { { PP_HTONL(a), PP_HTONL(b), PP_HTONL(c), PP_HTONL(d) } }
 #define IP_IS_V4_VAL(ipaddr)                    0
 #define IP_IS_V6_VAL(ipaddr)                    1
 #define IP_IS_V4(ipaddr)                        0