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From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@linaro.org>
Subject: rte_mbuf's packet_type field
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:15:07 +0000
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Hi,

I have a quick question about this field: how do I know if the 
underlying PMD supports a particular protocol parsing. Let's say I want 
to check for SCTP packets, looking at this field tells me EITHER the 
packet is SCTP (or not), OR that the hardware has no idea about SCTP. Is 
there a way to figure that support out?

Zoli