From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9767] New: missing native u32 classifier for routing policy Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:12 -0800 Message-ID: <20080117004612.e815a3e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, pupilla@hotmail.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:39458 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753972AbYAQIqC (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:46:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. >