netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: reflect the fwmark for replies with no socket

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:55:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lorenzo@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reflect the fwmark for replies with no socket

From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:24:57 +0900

> In general, that's true. Still - currently the mark on these packets
> is 0, period, and the administrator can't do anything about that at
> all. The idea was that some control is better than zero control, and
> since these packets are always in reply to other packets, then marking
> responses based on the packets that provoked them made sense, since
> the input marking can be as flexible as the administrator desires.

I do not agree with this assesment at all, a default of 0 is better
than an potentially undesirable default.

The incoming fwmark is controlled by external entities, and most people
are usually unhappy with external entities having influence upon their
machine's behavior.
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