Policy routing idea (Was: ipfw: Would it be possible to continue processing rest of rules after match ?)

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:19:44PM +0300, Ari Suutari wrote:
> > yes i think you should reuse the tag, just add a new opcode so that
> > the action is attach the mtag to the mbuf if not there yet
> > (maybe override its content if you believe you could match multiple rules of
> > this type) and then continue processing as in a 'count' action.
> 
> Differences to "ipfw fwd" seem to be minimal. Maybe a sysctl

yes but it is a different action and you may want both types
of rules in the same ruleset, so a sysctl is out of discussion.
I really believe the "setnexthop" action is the best approach.

> which changes fwd rule behaviour so that it can either work
> as before or similar to 'count' action would be better solution ?
> This would be similar to net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass.

i admit that there is some similarity... but not 100%... :)

	cheers
	luigi

> (I'm not very actively pushing to sysctl solution, I would
> just like to find out best approach before starting actual
> coding)
> 
>     Ari S.
> 
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