On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 07:45 -0500, Jason Opperisano wrote: > nothing can replace you actually testing this for yourself, but yes--in > my experience--MARKs stay with a packet through its entire journey > through the stack, regardless of what sort of processing is done to the > packet. a MARK is simply tag associated with a packet, but not part of > the packet itself. That being said, I just did some testing, and it would appear that they are indeed preserved. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <michael_soulier@xxxxxxxxx>, 613-592-2122 x2522 6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Corporation "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix