On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:57:27PM +0100, Erik Hensema wrote:
> In order to be able to provide QoS on tunneled IPv6 connections, I've
> created a simple patch (definately not ready for inclusion in the kernel,
> since it surely needs a configuration option) which promotes the netfilter
> MARK value from the IPv6 packets to the sit packets.
> Now I can mark packets using ip6tables, and on the ipv4 level I can still
> differentiate between the priorities. Problem solved, I'm happy ;-)
I like this patch. I think we should make it a kernel configuration
option, but for all kind of tunnel interfaces. Something like
'propagate NFMARK while tunneling' (or maybe 'preserve' instead of
'propagate' is better language?)
DaveM: Would this be acceptable?
> Erik Hensema (erik@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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