Mark Frazer wrote:
> I'd like to be able to select a routing table based on any possible TOS
> setting. The system I'm building is to be able to route an arbitrary
> TOS setting as we're looking at the IPv4 TOS byte as a diffserv DSCP.
> What is the reasoning behind restricting the valid TOS matches to 0x00,
> 0x02, 0x04, 0x08 and 0x10?
Probably because they are the known/well-defined values....
> I'm a bit new to wandering through the kernel, but I think the
> functions I'm having grief with are the checkentry function in
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TOS.c for iptables. I'd expect to find a similar
> test for the net/netlink or net/core/rtnetlink.c but I cannot, although
> I assume the ip command is trying to use the routing netlink to set
> its routes.
I'd try hacking ipt_TOS.c first and if you compiled it as a module,
you can quickly test different ipt_TOS modules without having to reboot.
You should also give the netfilter mailing list a try as well:
netfilter@lists.samba.org
Regards,
Edwin
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