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On 12/21/10 5:14 AM, jamal wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 11:23 -0800, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
>
>> I'll try to implement this approach in the next few days.
> Excellent ;->  Remember, this is general purpose tag, sort
> like socket/route/skb->mark. It is upto the administrator to
> define its use via policy.
>
> cheers,
> jamal


Did that end up going anywhere?

There are a lot of cases where matching on "ppp*" would be handy.