On 5/6/2017 8:24 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Using the entropy in the UDP port number works perfectly well to get
> ECMP or RSS  for any UDP encapsulation including Geneve, VXLAN, GUE,
> etc. If the UDP port number  weren't good enough then the IPv6 flow
> label can be used (and that works for _any_ protocol not just UDP!).

If the IPv6 flow is set, intermediate devices really have no business
doing DPI to infer flows themselves.

I.e., the first thing is to check the flow ID and peek further only when
that fails (e.g., flow ID is zero).

Joe

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