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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gre: copy ToS/DiffServ bits to outer IP header
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:07:43 -0700
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:01:42 +0200
Andreas Jaggi <aj@open.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:33:03AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Why make it an option? Sounds like it should always be on.
> 
> In some scenarios people might want to set the ToS value for all
> GRE tunnel packets to a fixed value (cf. ip tunnel tos option).

Having more options, does not help users.  Why not just do that
with iptables or classifiers?