On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:05:32AM -0800, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
>   > Note that the IP length field must be in host byte order
> 
> Historically, BSD-derived systems have always had the length and offset fields
> in host byte order.
> 
... as demonstrated in the ip(4) manpage's decription of the
IP_HDRINCL option.


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