Subject: Re: IP_HDRINCL revisited
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/21/1999 22:20:09
In article <199901212132.NAA17761@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> (1) Should we bother making the IP_HDRINCL change, and just keep
> the traditional BSD semantics of ip_len in host order, or
>
> (2) If we do change IP_HDRINCL, should we also change rip_input()
> to swap ip_len back into network order before handing it off
> to the socket, so that the byte order will be consistent for
> sending and receiving?
>
> -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
I would say yes on both counts, but we need to move to 1.3K then.
christos