[BangPypers] Handling bit sized fields in network headers

[Vishal]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One more thing...once you read the incoming bytes as strings, you'll have
> > to convert them to numbers (using struct.unpack or array.tolist() or
> > something else) before using the code fragments !!
> >
>
>            Yeah, got that part already :) Thanks
>
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Ok good. One more very important thing (I hope this is the last caveat :))
)...the byte order assumed is little-endian here. Network byte order is
mostly big-endian. So you'll have to interpret the string as number in
big-endian format, covert it to little-endian and then use the code
fragments.

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Vishal Sapre

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