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From: Mike-Ro-Chanel <mikerochanel@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: Adding packet metadata
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:18:52 +0100
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mike-Ro-Chanel wrote:
> 
> 
>>An interesting question about MARK field in SKB structure is: Can I use 
>>all 32-bit of "nfmark" for adding metadata?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>Iptables front-end (from command line) seems to take mark value as a
>>8-bit number.
> 
> 
> What makes you think so?

Now I understand, it is my error on iptables usage.

> There is a slight signed bug in the string_to_number function which 
> prevents the use of the 2^31 bit, easily fixed by changing it to use 
> unsigned.
> 
Ok, thanks for the tip!

		Mike-Ro-Chanel