From: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
Cc: Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: High accuracy bandwidth accounting?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:17:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCC5C69.1020305@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305158473.1921.358.camel@andybev-desktop>
On 12/05/2011 01:01, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:30 +0100, Ed W wrote:
>> On 09/05/2011 22:45, Andrew Beverley wrote:
>>> I wrote a similar patch for Squid (released in V3.2), which allows
>>> packets to be marked before Squid, and Squid to reapply the mark on
>>> retransmission. Marks can also be applied for locally cached files. If
>>> it helps the patch is at:
>>>
>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~squid/squid/3-trunk/revision/10925
>>
>>
>> Did you find any better way to read the packet mark than using
>> conntrack? I see that's how you are doing it in the patch you reference?
>>
>
> No, I think that's the only/best way of doing it (you can't read it from
> a socket). That's the advice I got from the netfilter developers anyway,
> and it doesn't get much better than that.
I guess a feature request that the nf_mark is copied down to the "socket
mark" for arriving packets is going to be met with a "lets see your
patch"? Did you do any investigation to see where such code might be
fitted - or even if it's a good idea?
Cheers
Ed W
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-09 14:12 High accuracy bandwidth accounting? Ed W
2011-05-09 21:45 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-09 22:07 ` Ed W
2011-05-09 22:16 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-09 22:49 ` Ed W
2011-05-11 14:30 ` Ed W
2011-05-12 0:01 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-12 22:17 ` Ed W [this message]
2011-05-12 22:27 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-09 23:23 ` Ed W
2011-05-14 9:23 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-14 13:36 ` Ed W
2011-05-14 16:29 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-14 22:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-15 7:23 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-15 9:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-16 6:43 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-16 7:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-22 21:22 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-05-16 14:35 ` Ed W
2011-05-16 14:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-16 16:53 ` Ed W
2011-05-14 9:48 ` Marek Kierdelewicz
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