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Endian Firewall, a Linux Routing/Firewall distribution
Endianess, the byte (and sometimes bit) ordering in memory used to represent some kind of data in computing

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Category: Disambiguation The Endian Firewall is a Linux distribution that specializes on Routing/Firewalling and Unified Thread Management. ... When integers or any other data are represented with multiple bytes, there is no unique way of ordering of those bytes in memory or in a transmission over some medium, and so the order is subject to arbitrary convention. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Introduction to Endianness - big endian, little endian, byte order, byte swap (1120 words)
	Endianness is the attribute of a system that indicates whether integers are represented from left to right or right to left.
	Little endian means that the least significant byte of any multibyte data field is stored at the lowest memory address, which is also the address of the larger field.
	For that reason, it may be unwise to select a little endian processor for use in a device, such as a router or gateway, with an abundance of network functionality.

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