From: Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rationale behind MARK target only in mangle table
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:27:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D51137E.5010702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110208092726.GM6524@ks28632.kimsufi.com>
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:57 PM, Eric Leblond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday, 2011 February 8 at 14:30:57 +0530, Srinivasa T N wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have not gone through the old discussions (if there was one on
>> this topic).
>> I wanted to know the rationale behind allowing MARK target only in
>> the mangle table?
>
> There is almost none and in recent kernel the limitation is not there
> anymore. You can do marking in the filter tables:
> iptables -A OUTPUT -j MARK --set-mark 1
>
Thanks. I was on RHEL 6 (2.6.32) with iptables 1.4.7 and the manpage
was mis-leading.
Regards,
Seenu.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 9:00 Rationale behind MARK target only in mangle table Srinivasa T N
2011-02-08 9:27 ` Eric Leblond
2011-02-08 9:57 ` Srinivasa T N [this message]
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