[LARTC] [PATCH] mark in u32

[Andy Furniss]

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Andy Furniss <41DC06D8.70301@dsl.pipex.com> 2005-01-05 15:25
> 
>>Thomas Graf wrote:
>>
>>>>That looks handy :-) Do you know why fw mark doesn't work with policers 
>>>>in 2.6 (assuming it's not just me)
>>>
>>>
>>>Be prepared to see it removed again in favour of the meta extended
>>>match. Don't rely too much on it.
>>
>>I searched a bit around meta data recently but couldn't find much - do 
>>you have any links?
> 
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-12/msg00767.html
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-01/msg00028.html

Thanks.

> 
> 
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lartc&m=110122532022827&w=2
> 
> 
> Do you see the police/action stats being updated? i.e. does
> the matching itself work?

 From memory yes - counters showed OK on iptables and tc -s qdisc ls dev 
eth0 just no drops

I'll repeat tonight to be sure.

Andy.

> 
> Ingress qdisc reads from prerouting hook as well, might be
> a priority issue.
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