OSPF endianess fix

David Rohleder davro at ics.muni.cz
Mon Sep 8 11:28:34 CEST 2003


Ondrej Feela Filip <feela at network.cz> writes:

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, David Rohleder wrote:
>
>> Rani Assaf <rani at paname.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > The attached  patch fixes two  (big-)endianess issues in OSPF  which lead
>> > bird to stuck in EXSTART state.
>> >
>> > Patch tested on a PPC machine against a Cisco router.
>> 
>> I think that preffered way would be to use correct ntoh(3) library
>> call while receiving LSA packet. Still doesn't matter, because BIRD
>
> It's not so easy, try to look into the code.
>
>> doesn't support multiple OSPF areas :-( (as far as i know).
>
> How do the two things correlate?
>

A bit, just to mention, that BIRD can not be used as ABR.

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