From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2] ip-xfrm: Add support for OUTPUT_MARK
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:29:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d25ad24-b260-1798-a370-c163b068532e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b35396f04f5e7209c18cf3cd27ef42e8@codeaurora.org>
On 6/13/18 11:09 PM, Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan wrote:
> The output mark differs from the existing xfrm mark in two ways:
>
> 1. The xfrm mark is used to match xfrm policies and states, while
> the xfrm output mark is used to set the mark (and influence
> the routing) of the packets emitted by those states.
> 2. The existing mark is constrained to be a subset of the bits of
> the originating socket or transformed packet, but the output
> mark is arbitrary and depends only on the state.
make sure the man page update contains the description of the 2 marks
and why they are used.
Thanks,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-14 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-12 18:48 [PATCH iproute2-next v2] ip-xfrm: Add support for OUTPUT_MARK Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2018-06-13 3:14 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2018-06-13 4:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-06-14 3:39 ` David Ahern
2018-06-14 5:09 ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2018-06-14 16:29 ` David Ahern [this message]
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