Re: [PATCH] SocketCAN support for libpcap - draft

[Felix Obenhuber <felix () obenhuber de>]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:38 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I think that preserving the byte order makes sense in order to lean
> > against the behavior of the native netdev interface. This is also the
> > way libpcap does with ETH_P_ALL devices. Is this correct?
>
> What does "preserving the byte order" mean here?  Putting the fields  
> into a standard byte order at capture time, or putting them into the  
> host byte order when reading the file (i.e., byte-swapping them if  
> you're reading the file on a host with a byte order different from the  
> byte order of the host on which the file was written)?

Putting them into the host byte order when reading the file.

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