kamal kc wrote:
- final thing does this makes any difference (calling the htons() twice):ip->ip_id=htons(ip->ip_id); ip->ip_id=htons(ip->ip_id);
on little endian machines: yes. on big endian machines: no. So don't do it. :)
freebsd has several fields of the ip headerin host byte order to speed up access. they get converted to network byte order at a very late stage of the ip output path.
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