## Tips and tricks

GNet was designed so that most of the implementation is hidden from the programmer. You should not have to include any network header files other than `gnet.h`.

By convention, integers are usually transfered in big-endian, or network-byte, order. GLib has conversion functions for shorts and ints: `g_ntohs` (network-to-host short), `g_htons` (host-to network short), `g_ntohl` (network-to-host long), and `g_htonl` (host-to-network long).