From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edmundo Carmona Subject: is this the zillionth mail asking for this detail? Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: <65aa6af905072021501603cfd5@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Edmundo Carmona Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Hi, guys! This is my very first post here... and I want it to be meaningful... at least to myself. :) 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 good and necessary. Why is the routing decision made before the packets hit OUTPUT? I know that in OUTPUT it's already necessary to know what network interface the packet will go through but then is it wrong to do policy routing on output traffic? I don't think so. Maybe a new chain could be used to do some PREROUTING actions (like marking) before the routing decision is made for output traffic. What do you think?