netdev - Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel (v.2)

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:49:17 +0200
From:	Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@....net>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel (v.2)

On 08.06.2007 19:00, Ben Greear wrote:
> I have another sysfs patch that allows setting a default skb->mark for
> an interface so that you can set the skb->mark
> before it hits the connection tracking logic, but I'm been told this one
> has very little chance
> of getting into the kernel.  The skb->mark patch is only useful (as far
> as I can tell) if you
> also include a patch Patrick McHardy did for me that allowed the
> conn-tracking logic to
> use skb->mark as part of it's tuple.  This allows me to do NAT between
> virtual routers
> (routing tables) on the same machine using veth-equivalent drivers to
> connect the
> routers.  He thinks this will probably not ever get into the kernel either.

Are these patches available somewhere? I'm currently doing NAT between
virtual routers by some advanced iproute2/iptables trickery, but I have
no way to handle the occasional tuple conflict.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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