From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, pupilla@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9767] New: missing native u32 classifier for routing policy
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080117004612.e815a3e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-9767-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:30:49 -0800 (PST) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9767
>
> Summary: missing native u32 classifier for routing policy
> Product: Networking
> Version: 2.5
> KernelVersion: all since 2.2
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: Linux
> Tree: Mainline
> Status: NEW
> Severity: low
> Priority: P1
> Component: IPV4
> AssignedTo: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
> ReportedBy: pupilla@hotmail.com
>
>
> This is not a bug report, but a feature request.
> routing policy database management is supported since linux 2.2, but it lacks
> u32 selector (matching by IP protocols, transport ports).
> fwmark is a workaround for this missing feature, but source ip address
> selection will not work anyway: the mark value can't be used for source address
> selection because at the time source address selection is performed, there is
> no packet yet and thus no mark value.
>
parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 8:46 UTC|newest]
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