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

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:52:39 +0200 (EET)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reflect the fwmark for replies with no socket


	Hello,

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:

> Kernel-originated IP packets that have no user socket associated
> with them (e.g., ICMP errors and echo replies, TCP RSTs, etc.)
> are emitted with a mark of zero. Instead, make them have the
> same mark as the packet they are replying to.
> 
> This is consistent with TOS, which is also reflected from the
> incoming packet, and it allows the administrator to use
> mark-based routing, firewalling, etc. for these replies by
> marking the original packets inbound.

	If you can do it with CONNMARK save+restore,
do not change behavior for existing setups. It is
hard to predict how the mark is used in ip and
POST ROUTING rules.

> Also fix the IPv6 code to reflect the tclass in replies like the
> IPv4 code does.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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