I think this is an ok midterm solution and should be applied.
One comment Catalin: Can you resend the patch make this a selectable
choice via kconfig?
Eventually - we should kill this + the indev choices on u32 and move it
up one so that we can have all filters capable of following filters from
other classifiers. As a matter of fact we already have this feature but
it is a little on the inefficient side at the moment.
cheers,
jamal
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 06:38, Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am glad to announce a patch for u32 to allow matches on nfmark.
> The patch is non intrusive (few lines).
>
> Why I did this? Because fw classifier cannot be used together with u32.
> For example, now, you cannot match a mark of 0x90 and a destination
> port of 80. I know you can do it with iptables to do the marking, but if
> you use Jamal actions to apply mark to policed packets, you need this.
>
> All stuff can be found at http://kernel.umbrella.ro/ also.
>
> Dave, please consider adding this patch.
>
> Stephen, if Dave accepts the patch, please apply the iproute2 patch. Thank
> you.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro>
>
> Thank you for you time.
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> Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE
> catab at deuroconsult.ro
> http://kernel.umbrella.ro/
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