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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:41 EST
Subject: Re: Help! Modifying Linux sources to compile under 2.2.7R.
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As I recall, some flavors of Unix have already converted the length field
to host order before delivering the packet, on a raw socket.  I seem to
remember that FreeBSD is one of them, and Linux is not.  The same probably
applies to output.

Barney Wolff  <barney@databus.com>

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