From: "Alex Samad" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > hi > > sorry missed the previous bits of the thread, could you post the relevant info, > interested to see how this works and why you would pick it over the multipath > method Please note my checking of marked traffic is not ( according to the earlier posts ) > iptables -t mangle .... -m mark --mark ! 0 -j ACCEPT However, it is :- > iptables -t mangle .... -m mark ! --mark 0 -j ACCEPT I leave it to you guys to decide which is the correct syntax. The code below is taken from part of my bigger code :- Cheers. ---------------------code------------------------------------------- LINK1_MARK=5 LINK2_MARK=7 OUTSIDE_DEV_WEIGHT=0.5 INSIDE_DEVICE=eth0 OUTSIDE_DEVICE=eth1 OUTSIDE_DEVICE2=eth2 SAVEMARK="-m mark ! --mark 0 -j CONNMARK --save-mark" ACCEPTMARK="-m mark ! --mark 0 -j ACCEPT" SETMARK1="-j MARK --set-mark ${LINK1_MARK}" SETMARK2="-j MARK --set-mark ${LINK2_MARK}" # #first, restore and accept the mark if there is any iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -j CONNMARK --restore-mark iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j CONNMARK --restore-mark iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} #handle inbound for link1 iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${OUTSIDE_DEVICE} ${SETMARK1} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${OUTSIDE_DEVICE} ${SAVEMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} #handle inbound for link2 iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${OUTSIDE_DEVICE2} ${SETMARK2} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${OUTSIDE_DEVICE2} ${SAVEMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} # (other features implementation snipped ) #handle recent outbound iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} -m recent --name link1 \ --update --second 300 ${SETMARK1} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} -m recent --name link2 \ --update --second 300 ${SETMARK2} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} ${SAVEMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} # #non-recent outbound randomly allocated # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} \ -m statistic --mode random --probability ${OUTSIDE_DEV2_WEIGHT} \ -m recent --name link2 --set ${SETMARK2} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} ${SAVEMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} \ -m recent --name link1 --set ${SETMARK1} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ${INSIDE_DEVICE} ${SAVEMARK} iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING ${ACCEPTMARK} _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc