netdev - Re: [resend][PATCH] Introducing socket mark socket option

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Message-ID: <47985DD4.3000706@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:43:48 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@...abit.hu>
CC:	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH] Introducing socket mark socket option

Laszlo Attila Toth wrote:
> A userspace program may wish to set the mark for each packets its send
> without using the netfilter MARK target. Changing the mark can be used
> for mark based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering.
> 
> It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.


Looks good to me.
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