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From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] tc and iptables --set-mark question
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 16:30:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-105725028829298@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-105723830614686@msgid-missing>

On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:12, Joerg Hartmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if i mark packets on my firewall with "iptables" and "--set-mark" (lets
> say .. with --set-mark 0x12 ..) can someone tell me, WHERE in the
> resulting ip packet this data is stored ?
It's stored in kernel memory.  If the packet leaves the box, the mark is gone;

> From the examples i have seen, it seems to me that the mark can be as big
> as one Byte - is this correct ?
1 byte = 2^8 = 256.  I think it can be bigger.

> The next question is - is it possible to clear the statistical counters
> of "tc -s class .." back to zero ?
No.

Stef

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-03 13:12 [LARTC] tc and iptables --set-mark question Joerg Hartmann
2003-07-03 16:30 ` Stef Coene [this message]
2003-07-08 19:01 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez

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