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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: --set-mark limit
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:45:12 +0100
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On Tuesday 18 June 2002 7:31 pm, Luiz Fernando T. Campos wrote:

> hello guys,
>
> I have several links to limit the bandwidth,
> so I need to know what is the maximum value
> for the --set-mark value in the mangle table

According to the source code, it's an unsigned long, which on my machine 
means you can use values from 0 to (2^32)-1 = 4294967295

Should be enough for your purposes :-)

 

Antony.