reading network binary data from LEFT or RIGHT?
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When i first started to learn about the binary system i always ended up learning that to count in binary you work from right to left. 128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1. But while looking at the Netflow packet 9 format from cisco. (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies\_white\_paper09186a00800a3db9.shtml) it shows the field bit positions starting from left to right. [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. how to I align up those bit values? does bit position 7 have a value of 1, or 128? or does this not matter since i am reading my data from a byte array and then i could just use the convert.tostring(2,byte) to view the binary data and the resulting string would be in the format of 128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1? thanks. hopefully i'll figure this out soon so i can get to sleep before 3am like last night!!