Re: Writing metadata to a packet

2017-03-31 Thread Patrick Schaaf
Hi Vikas, in a very controlled environment, loadbalancer to real servers, I'm doing that using the IP TOS / DSCP header bits - manipulating them using the TOS target, on the loadbalancer, in mangle/PREROUTING rules, and matching them using the tos match on the realservers (nat PREROUTING) to

Writing metadata to a packet

2017-03-30 Thread Vikas
Hi, I was wondering if how we can set some user specified values when we punt a packet from source to destination in a infrastructure which uses netfilter? More precisely at the source side so that when packet reaches destination host, it can decode the metadata values. Is their a way out?