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On 11/27/14 18:20, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 27 November 2014 at 09:18, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Erk - SCTP folk - are you using the mbuf flowid field for something
>> SCTP specific?
>
> erk - yes, you are.
>
> It seems we're going to run into "what exactly should flowid be used
> for" problems.
>

Hi,

If the flowid has special meaning inside the SCTP, please define an own 
"rsstype" for it. As far as I could see, it is only used to spread the 
traffic on the network adapter and on the CPU cores.

--HPS