Re: Layer 7 support for tcng ?

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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 21:15, Matthew Strait wrote:
> 
> The plan is to port l7-filter to Netfilter.  Once this is done, Netfilter
> can put marks on the packets that the pre-existing fw filter can use.
> This approach requires no changes to tcng (or tc).  However, it does
> complicate shaping, since two steps are needed rather than one (i.e.
> "mark HTTP as 6; limit 6 to 1mbps", rather than "limit HTTP to 1mbps").
> In the long term, I'd like to have full layer7 support in both QoS and
> Netfilter.

This would be perfect. It doesn't really complicate my setup since i already 
use shorewall as firewall and that has support for marking packets already.

Is this anywhere near to being usable ? Will it be 2.6 only ?
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