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Re: [RFC] nfmark modify extension to classifiers

To: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] nfmark modify extension to classifiers
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 03:28:59 +0200
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, Alexey <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello

> This is a bad idea.
> Please consider using the tc action extensions. 

You mean TC_POLICE_NFMARK? This was actually my initial idea
but I wanted to avoid a dependency mess.

> I was going to write a generic metadata modifier action
> (classid, tcindex, nfmark etc). Maybe you can beat me to it.

I also thought about that, more specificly: Extend tcf_result
and set nfmark/tcindex in tc_classify?

There are so many solutions to this and I have no clue what
is the best solution.

Regards

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Thomas GRAF <tgraf@xxxxxxx>

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