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From: billw@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (William E. Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Intel vs Motorola Byte ordering (network standards)(long)
Message-ID: <1188@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 21:14:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 21:14:59 1986
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Keywords: networks
Summary: It doesn't matter...


Network interfaces should do any byte swapping that may be necessary for
a given machine.  That way there isn't any speed penalty.

(having to byte swap the headers only is not so bad - note that the
 ones complement checksum used in TCP/IP is associative with respect
 tp byte swapping...)

BillW