[PATCH v3 1/2] net: add ptype parse for tunnel packets

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Feb 14 17:35:53 CET 2025


On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:56:37 +0800
Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com> wrote:

> Add packet types parse for vxlan/vxlan-gpe/gtp/geneve packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
> ---

Not sure about this.
The original purpose of ptype was to support hardware offload information.

Does any driver do this ptype detection in tunnels?

Would the software detection produce the same result as HW offload?


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