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Re: sparc64 and ipsec anyone?



On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:14:56PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:47:10AM +0000, Paul Hedderly wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:44:06PM -0800, Patrick Morris wrote:
> > > In my experience, it's been unusable on anything big-endian.
> > 
> > Nah many people use freeswan on sparc/alpha/PPC ... 
> 
> I thought that both Alpha and PPC were little endian...

Nope, big.  Intel is the odd duck.

> I know that I got freeswan to compile on my MIPS box, though I don't
> think I ever got it to actually work.  But then again, I don't remember
> how hard I tried.

Well, Mips can be either Big- or Little-Endian.  I've heard rumor of a
jumper on some motherboards to flip it.  Of course, that sounds just 
too cool to be true.

						- chad



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