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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: ip_input.c patch
In-Reply-To: <200010110053.CAA85156@info.iet.unipi.it> "from Luigi Rizzo at Oct
 11, 2000 02:53:34 am"
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > Does this patch look appropriate to you?
> 
> wouldn't it be better to just avoid the problem in the first place
> by removing the conversion to host format and fixing the rest
> of the code to handle things in net format ?

Sounds OK to me.. maybe some asm() guru can come up with some
fast functions for adding and subtracting byte-swapped values.

-Archie

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