From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH] Introducing socket mark socket option Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:43:48 +0100 Message-ID: <47985DD4.3000706@trash.net> References: <47974D07.5040202@trash.net> <1201167495912-git-send-email-panther@balabit.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org To: Laszlo Attila Toth Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1201167495912-git-send-email-panther@balabit.hu> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Laszlo Attila Toth wrote: > A userspace program may wish to set the mark for each packets its send > without using the netfilter MARK target. Changing the mark can be used > for mark based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering. > > It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. Looks good to me.