On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:15:28AM +0200, Josip Gracin wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to set up a machine to introduce random (but controllable) > dropping of packets that are being forwarded. I also need to classify the Try to make a u32 match on a part of the header that changes a lot. I suspect the IP packet id would be a good candidate, but you need to make sure that resends of the same packet do get through. If you match, route to loopback. > traffic because I want some traffic shaping. The obvious solution is to > QUEUE packets to user level and if they are ACCEPTed, put a MARK > (--set-mark) on them for classifying. This would seem logical: > > iptables -A FORWARD -j QUEUE -j MARK > > Of course, it is not possible. How do I do this than? That is, how to do > it without using two identical rules, one with QUEUE action and another > with MARK action which does not seem to be a nice solution. Try asking the netfilter mailinglist. Regards, bert hubert -- PowerDNS Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet