From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur van Leeuwen arthurvl@sci.kun.nl Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:30:57 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] tables and mapping marked packets to realms Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Gregory OSINAIKE wrote:

> Looking at the HOWTO for iproute2 isee examples where they create a rule
> and make a look up table (the John example). I have installed iproute2
> but don't seem to have a:
>
> /etc/rt_tables/ path.
>
> Why?

Because you didn't make the directory and didn't put the example files
there. That's all there is to making one.

> I want to map marked packets(using iptables) to realms and all packets
> within a realm to have the same route regardless of destination.
>
> What if two marked packets have the same destination ?

You can select policy rules based solely on marks, thereby disregarding
destination until a certain routing policy has been chosen. Two differently
marked packets with the same destination can still be routed differently.

Doei, Arthur.

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