[LARTC] tc and iptables --set-mark question

[Jose Luis Domingo Lopez]

On Thursday, 03 July 2003, at 18:30:20 +0200,
Stef Coene wrote:

> > From the examples i have seen, it seems to me that the mark can be as big
> > as one Byte - is this correct ?
> 1 byte = 2^8 = 256.  I think it can be bigger.
> 
You are correct. If I understand correctly the code in:
/usr/src/linux-2.5.73/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_mark.h

marks are "unsigned longs", so at least 2^32 of them should be available.

Hope this helps.

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Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
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