>>>>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:00:53 +0100, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Dave> I'm not sure that the on-the-wire representation is particularly Dave> relevant here. Surely what's important is how the Net-SNMP library Dave> stores an IP address internally? Dave> If it stores it as an integer, then this would most naturally Dave> be handled in local byte order (and any conversion done as part Dave> of building/parsing the actual packet). If it stores it as a Dave> string, then it makes more sense to handle the byte-ordering Dave> when the string value is set or read (presumably via a suitable Dave> utility routine). The routines expect 4 bytes handed to it in proper order. How those 4 bytes are stored doesn't matter... I think it's *mistakenly* stored as a integer many times because the C datatype is conveniently 4 bytes. Most of the time of course. -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
