[rescue] FDDI card

Scott Newell newell at cei.net
Mon Feb 25 10:20:31 CST 2002


>> 1) There's always going to be a bottleneck in network IO as every byte
>> that comes into the system has to be flipped around.  PC byteorder !=
>> network byte order.

Does every byte really need to be flipped?  If it's part of a multibyte
data member, sure.  But I would have guessed that a lot of packets contain
data in the form of a byte stream that wouldn't require swapping.  Hmmm.


newell



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