Switch the entire IPv4 stack to keep the IP packet header

in network byte order. Any host byte order processing is
done in local variables and host byte order values are
never[1] written to a packet.

  After this change a packet processed by the stack isn't
modified at all[2] except for TTL.

  After this change a network stack hacker doesn't need to
scratch his head trying to figure out what is the byte order
at the given place in the stack.

[1] One exception still remains. The raw sockets convert host
byte order before pass a packet to an application. Probably
this would remain for ages for compatibility.

[2] The ip_input() still subtructs header len from ip->ip_len,
but this is planned to be fixed soon.

Reviewed by:	luigi, Maxim Dounin <mdounin mdounin.ru>
Tested by:	ray, Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier cochard.me>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index caa5bb4..78ea38d 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
 	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
 	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20121023:
+	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
+	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
+	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
+	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
+
 20121022:
 	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
 	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be