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From: bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: socket(2)-Problem under FreeBSD
Date: 30 Sep 1994 00:49:20 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <36fj97$can@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Johannes Faerber <faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>I try to transmit UDP-packets via my SLIP connection but I can't
>bind a socket and thus only send packets, not receive them.
>
>sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
>sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
^^^^^^^^^^
>sin.sin_port = htons(port);
I didn't read the rest of this (so there may be other errors), but this
constant is in HOST byte order. Wrap a htonl() around it.
--
Ben Jackson