network byte order

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network byte order - The order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are transmitted on a network - most significant byte first (as in "big-endian" storage). This may or may not match the order in which numbers are normally stored in memory for a particular processor.

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In a traditional network stack, XDR performs byteswapping to a standard network byte order.

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