UDP/TCP versus IP frames - subtle out of order packets with hardware hashing

[Hooman Fazaeli]

On 7/15/2014 2:01 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 01:31:52PM +0430, Hooman Fazaeli wrote:
>
>> Doesn't the problem applies to TCP too?
>> TCP may be fragmented too but is less likely because of MSS.
> Don't forget GRE, IPIP, ESP and AH!
>
These protocols don't use port numbers  and the RSS hash is computed based on the
(srcip,dstip) tuple, so the problem does not apply to them.

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Best regards.
Hooman Fazaeli