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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:11:54 +0100
From:      njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, nate@almond.elite.net
Subject:   Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets
Message-ID:  <E0ypc2V-0006Wh-00@oak74.doc.ic.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> "Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets" (Jun 26,  9:58am)

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On Jun 26,  9:58am, Bill Fenner wrote:
} Subject: Re: Apparent bug in sendto() with raw sockets
> >I'm not so sure [compatability is] so important in this case.
> 
> As I said before, I'm worried about externally-written programs,
> particularly about externally-written programs that are not distributed
> with source (like pathchar).
> 
> I'd also like to see a definitive way to tell which order the kernel is
> expecting, so that externally-written programs that want to be portable
> (like, for example, mrouted, mrinfo, mtrace, rsvpd, etc.) don't have to
> use __FreeBSD_version.

Well, then they would need to go #ifdef __FreeBSD to see if that interface
was available =)

The convention of using network byte order is sufficient imho

niall

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