Paul Congdon <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm not sure your proposal is compatible with how the type/length field and
> ethertype field are distinguished.  If the first octet is less than 0x06,
> then the field is a type/length field per 802.3.
>
> https://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/ethertype.pdf

True, but there's no reason to put a packet length field in the Geneve
header; all ethertypes are 0x0600 or higher.  So we can give different
meanings to values of that field that start with 0x00-0x05

Dale

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