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Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard

2003-02-26 15:17:00
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:

This would not logically include ignoring the rule about everything put to
the wire must be "BIG ENDIAN"?  Obviously everyone knows to ignore this
ruleset when dealing with CRC32C; however, if you are a "BIG ENDIAN" box
you must conform to make your CRC32C put on the wire in "LITTLE ENDIAN".

Of course this is me being picky about following the rules.

Funny you would mention that. The CRC32C actually DOES go out in a
Big-Endian manner, in terms of the CRC polinomial powers. It is just that
the polinomial powers have bit 7 (2^0) as being more significant than bit
0 (2^7).

Take care,

Bill