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On May 18, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Ian Smith wrote:

> Hashed per flow, (srcip^destip^srcport^dstport) mod  
> curr_dyn_buckets, so
> packets for both directions of a given flow hash to the same  
> bucket.  In
> the case you mention, you could likely expect reasonable  
> distribution by
> src_ip/src_port.

Thanks for the detailed info.  This really helps.