[RFC] pcapng: record received RSS hash in pcap file

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:37 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> There is an option for recording RSS hash with packets in the
> pcapng standard. This implements this for all received packets.
>
> There is a corner case that can not be addressed with current
> DPDK API's. If using rte_flow() and some hardware it is possible
> to write a flow rule that uses another hash function like XOR.
> But there is no API that records this, or provides the algorithm
> info on a per-packet basis.
>
> The current version of wireshark does not display the recorded
> hash option. But if we build it they will come.

I updated the commitlog adding some info about "yet to be released
4.1" wireshark.

>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Tested-by: Ben Magistro <koncept1 at gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand