Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:01:13 -0800 (PST) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: divert(4) non-working code example Message-ID: <20000301020113.1767999DFA@waltz.rahul.net> References: <freebsd-stable.20000228165005.A7247@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> writes:
>> Never mind! I searched old mailing list archives and found that
>> I needed to do htons(port). What threw me off was that I was
>> consulting the natd(8) sources and they didn't bother doing so.
>>
>Why do you spread such misinformation?
>See StrToPort() function in natd(8) sources.
I see now that natd does use htons().
However, natd does the conversion between host order and network order
in places that are far away from the actual assignment to and from
fields in a socket structure. Hard to follow and easy to miss.
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