On 08/31/12 09:42 am, Lewis G Rosenthal thus wrote : > Greetings, all... > > I sent this last month, but didn't see it actually come through to the list (it was my first post, so perhaps it was a timing issue with MailMan). Anyway, here goes: > > This is my first post to the list, and indeed, while I'm a networking professional, this is the first time I've needed to get involved this deeply with Linux routing issues (I'm mainly a NetWare - now general Novell - and OS/2 - now eComStation consultant). > > Am having some difficulty getting the kernel to accept various ToS values which should be legal (this is under openSuSE 12.1, using 3.1.10 kernel and iproute2 2.6.39). For example: > > #ip rule add tos 0x20 table mytable > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > > It seems that all of the (original) ToS values work, so I thought that it was just DSCP values which didn't. However, 0x0c works without complaint. It has been suggested to me that only 4-bit values are acceptable and 8-bit ones are not. > > Could some kind soul point me in the right direction, please? > > Many thanks! > Bump... Any thoughts on the above? The client for whom I need to get this working is after me to find a fix. Can anyone confirm this difficulty, or suggest what I may be missing in the current setup? TIA PS - And thanks again to everyone who sent me email off-list with suggestions for my other thread (where to store persistent route/rule commands). Much appreciated!! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE, CWTS Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress please do not add my address to any non-bcc mass mailings ------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
