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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 11:24 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> >
> There are some drivers are using fixed keys.  This is not good.  I'll
> take a look at those.  It should be sufficient to randomly set the key
> once at initialization.
> 

If the software fallback (we need this for dumb NIC, or encapsulated
traffic) is more expensive than jhash, I do not think we will ever use
this Toeplitz thing.

We can not use jhash or Toeplitz.