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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 21:13:55 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
	"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 Mon, 2012-05-14 at 21:02 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

> IIRC, Hans wants that, in case you have a cluster composed of system
> with different endianess, the hash mark calculated will be the same
> in both systems. To ensure that the distribution is consistent with
> independency of the endianess.

Then jhash() must be audited to make sure its output is OK with this
requirement.





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