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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1205142015310.22219@frira.vanv.qr>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 20:24:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"kaber@...sh.net" <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"jengelh@...ozas.de" <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dan.carpenter@...cle.com" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	"hans@...illstrom.com" <hans@...illstrom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_HMARK: endian bugs

On Monday 2012-05-14 19:51, Hans Schillstrom wrote:

>On Monday 14 May 2012 18:24:34 Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:09 +0200, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
>> 
>> > This context can contain both le & be machines,
>> > so at least in hmark it make sense
>> 
>> Before jhash() and its shuffle ? What do you mean ?
>
>I want that a Big endian machine should produce the same
>hash value independent of flow direction as a Little endian.

But one does not really need that, since the hash is only used locally.
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