Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard

[wrstuden@wasabisystems.com]

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