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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_HMARK: endian bugs
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:13:55 +0200
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On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 21:02 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

> IIRC, Hans wants that, in case you have a cluster composed of system
> with different endianess, the hash mark calculated will be the same
> in both systems. To ensure that the distribution is consistent with
> independency of the endianess.

Then jhash() must be audited to make sure its output is OK with this
requirement.