[Cake] arp flow dissector

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> writes:

>> On 2 Sep, 2018, at 10:37 pm, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Didn't know we had this now.
>> 
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg413986.html
>
> Does that automagically give Cake an idea of the IP addresses
> associated with the packet, for host-fairness purposes?  If not, we
> should fix that.

Don't think so. There's a follow-up patch to enable the matching for
cls_flower: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg413985.html

However, in normal operation ARPs should be fairly rare, so adding this
support to CAKE would mostly be to protect against flooding, wouldn't
it?

-Toke