On Thursday, 03 July 2003, at 18:30:20 +0200, Stef Coene wrote: > > From the examples i have seen, it seems to me that the mark can be as big > > as one Byte - is this correct ? > 1 byte = 2^8 = 256. I think it can be bigger. > You are correct. If I understand correctly the code in: /usr/src/linux-2.5.73/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_mark.h marks are "unsigned longs", so at least 2^32 of them should be available. Hope this helps. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.5.73)