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* Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9767] New: missing native u32 classifier for routing policy
       [not found] <bug-9767-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
@ 2008-01-17  8:46 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2008-01-17  8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: bugme-daemon, pupilla

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.
> 

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