laravel how to properly esacpe inet_aton insertion?

so for example to save user ip into db:

$ip = Request::getClientIp();
...
$post->user_ip = DB::raw("inet_aton('$ip')");
$post->save()

I don't really like this code how to properly escape the $ip variable?

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