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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: atis@mikrotik.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, panther@balabit.hu,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, brian.haley@hp.com,
	zenczykowski@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Use routing mark from skb in multicast forwarding routing lookups
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:33:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013.033345.216191487.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910081619.44880.atis@mikrotik.com>

From: Atis Elsts <atis@mikrotik.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:19:44 +0300

> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 23:56:27 David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> Ok submit just the else part and we'll have a look at it.
>> 
> Here is a try.
> 
> Use routing mark from skb in routing lookup in IPv4 and IPv6 multicast forwarding code.
> Signed-off-by: Atis Elsts <atis@mikrotik.com>

The more I think about the less this makes sense.

There is no way to setup these semantics of lower level
routes and satisfy every reasonable use case.

We'll need to provide another facility or suggest other
methods to control marking of encapsulated routes from
the socket level, sorry.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-13 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05 13:46 [PATCH] Add sk_mark route lookup support for IPv4 listening sockets, and for IPv4 multicast forwarding Atis Elsts
2009-10-07 10:19 ` David Miller
2009-10-07 12:59   ` Atis Elsts
2009-10-07 20:56     ` David Miller
2009-10-08  0:03       ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2009-10-08  5:39         ` David Miller
2009-10-14  7:51           ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2009-10-14  7:23             ` steve
2009-10-14  9:15               ` David Miller
2009-10-14  9:50                 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2009-10-14  9:27                   ` steve
2009-10-14 11:04                     ` Atis Elsts
2009-10-14 10:16                       ` steve
2009-10-14 18:33                     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2009-10-19  8:20                       ` steve
2009-10-19 11:38                         ` Atis Elsts
2009-10-08 13:19       ` [PATCH] net: Use routing mark from skb in multicast forwarding routing lookups Atis Elsts
2009-10-13 10:33         ` David Miller [this message]

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