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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Byte and bit order within packet headers
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Date: 29 Apr 91 19:45:09 GMT
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In article <9104252242.AA28673@taipan.coral.com>, greene@coral.com
(Jeremy Greene) writes:
|> The bottom line is that you only have to worry about bit order if
|> you're wokring at the MAC layer.

Or reading IEEE documents that specify everything in a counter-intuitive
bit ordering :-\

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