[AP-UTILS] ap-utils on macosx

Roman Festchook ap-utils@kiev.iorta.com
Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:40:18 +0300


On ๐ัิ 06 ๗ลา 2002 22:15, Erik Rossen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:24:10AM -0700, Richard McDougall wrote:
> > I believe this is an issue on all big-endian machines, including
> > Solaris. I'll start to investigate what the issues are on both (there
> > seems to be something up with the snmp write commands swapping bytes for
> > configuration changes). Is anyone else on the list planning or already
> > looking at these issues?
>
> I was looking at endianness problems a while ago, but I just don't have
> that much time.  The most that I can promise is that I will be a user of
> ap-atmel.
>
> One thing that struck me while I was browsing Roman's code is that the
> WAP11 sometimes uses network byte order (big-endian) and sometimes uses
> little-endian order.  Be careful about what you assume is right or wrong
> when you examine the code - you might be surprised.
Yes Erik right - all code writen to run ap-utils on bigendian computers need 
to be tested but I cant do this because of lack such kind of computer, so if 
somebody have some time and want to contribute this work - hi/shi greatly 
welcomed!


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Roman Festchook
Network Engineer