Mellanox detains an Ethernet to embed additional metadata in Ethernet frames [1]. This Ether type is necessary for some NIC to transform packets using an offloading.
[1] http://standards-oui.ieee.org/ethertype/eth.txt Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> --- lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h index 06d7b486c..f118b6e01 100644 --- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h +++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h @@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ struct vxlan_hdr { #define ETHER_TYPE_SLOW 0x8809 /**< Slow protocols (LACP and Marker). */ #define ETHER_TYPE_TEB 0x6558 /**< Transparent Ethernet Bridging. */ #define ETHER_TYPE_LLDP 0x88CC /**< LLDP Protocol. */ +#define ETHER_TYPE_MLNX 0X8CE4 +/**< Mellanox additional metadata in Ethernet frames. */ #define ETHER_VXLAN_HLEN (sizeof(struct udp_hdr) + sizeof(struct vxlan_hdr)) /**< VXLAN tunnel header length. */ -- 2.11.0
