On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 10:48 PM 6/16/00 -0500, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > >Sockets? Butyou would definitely have seen this more than a couple of > >times. > > No, not sockets, sockets are way down on the stack. This is the protocol > that says what the octets mean and do. It's the common thread among all the > high level protocols and is directly below them in the stack. But I can't > think of the darn name. XDR? I think that is the Sun (or Xerox) standard for endian-ness in network octet encoding. This thread should make interesting reading in the archives. Regards
