endianess problem!!!!

I have a small doubt regarding endianess. My system here is little endian and the board I am communicating with is big endian. Hence the data received by the board is not same as what I am sending. I have heard about htons and htonl,are they used only for IP address conversion or even for data? I just need to make sure that data should be matched both the sides,so can anybody please help me out!!!!Thanks in advance.......

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Originally Posted by sandeepvignesh

I have a small doubt regarding endianess. My system here is little endian and the board I am communicating with is big endian. Hence the data received by the board is not same as what I am sending. I have heard about htons and htonl,are they used only for IP address conversion or even for data? I just need to make sure that data should be matched both the sides,so can anybody please help me out!!!!Thanks in advance.......

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Network byte order is big-endian, and you need to convert native-endian to/from big-endian, so the htonX() and ntohX() functions are exactly what you need.

Thanks a lot. I will let you know if at all i face any problem.