Well,  not without breaking every asic implementation out there.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 2:47 AM Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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