Re: is this the zillionth mail asking for this detail?

[/dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk>]

Edmundo Carmona wrote:
> I don't think I'm that smart to be the first to need this feature...
> so I hope I'm the ONE vote that flips the balance to convince
> netfilter developers that this is indeed <i>good and necessary</i>.

I am not sure we have developers posting here regularly. I've seen 
Harald Welte, but not often. I just looked and see that Jozsef 
Kadlecsik, who does post here, is on the Core Team.

> Maybe a new chain could be used to do some PREROUTING actions (like
> marking) before the routing decision is made for output traffic.

Is there any reason you can't use mangle/PREROUTING or nat/PREROUTING 
for what you need? What would filter/PREROUTING provide that those do 
not? In fact, although I don't do anything with mangle, I thought 
marking was in mangle territory.

 > What do you think?

Perhaps you should try to make your case on the developers' list.
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