Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:25:07 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r268837 - head/sys/netinet Message-ID: <53C96683.9070902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonRRZPi%2BRkGQk25xrXGf9BOhHXvAVhRWse%2BfXKduoJ19g@mail.gmail.com> References: <201407180822.s6I8MD5a023838@svn.freebsd.org> <53C94F61.5020706@freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmonRRZPi%2BRkGQk25xrXGf9BOhHXvAVhRWse%2BfXKduoJ19g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Adrian, > Hah! I wonder why the key from the T3 NIC that Robert committed was so > .. terrible then. > > Are you saying that the actual byte order is totally reversed, or just endian? The 32-bit word order of your array is reversed. The last 4 bytes should be the first, etc. Have a look at the values in the Microsoft spec. > I think that was Roberts main concern with using a randomised key at > startup. It sounds Netapp have already done a lot of the work that I > was thinking about in the back of my mind - I'll add that to my TODO > list so we can write a random key generation function at boot time. It's still useful to select the Microsoft value e.g. with a tunable, since it allows easy verification when folk are implementing RSS. later, Peter.
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