On Thursday 03 June 2004 16:20, Rafael Paoliello Guimaraes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well what I would like is to mark each flow in its source with a label > (in the flow label field in the case of IPv6 or in an option field in > case of IPv4) and make all the routing based on its flow. Something like > ~ IntServ. So, all the routers in the middle (that will be linux boxes) > will route IP datagrams based on both the IP address and this flow > label. As far as I understand, the fwmarks allows me to mark packets and > make rules based on this mark but just in the same computer (am I > right?). What I would like to do is something like taking other fields > of the IP header into consideration (the flow label) for routing it. Congratulations! you've just re-invented MPLS... http://mpls-linux.sourceforge.net/ This is also useful: http://linux-vrf.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Codefidence. A name you can trust (TM) http://www.codefidence.com "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." - William Gibson - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
