Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-18-04 at 17:40 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-18-04 at 14:14 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>>> You're correct (It's been a while since I thought about why I did
>>>> HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS). So long as you don't try to use SAVE/RESTORE rules, you
>>>> should be ok. HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS provides a way to do SAVE/RESTORE safely
>>>> while still using 'track' (which also does SAVE/RESTORE).
>>> I think even SAVE/RESTORE could be used as long as they use masks and
>>> 'track'ing used netmasks as well, no?
>> No Brian. Shorewall generates RESTORES with mask 0xff.
> 
> Yes, I realize it does currently.  My proposition is to use a mask that
> masks off the high-order bits.  Only 1 bit if two providers, 2 bits if 4
> or less, 3 if 7 or less, etc.  Of course the trade-off is the more
> providers, the less bits you have to do other marking.  But really, how
> many providers can one person have?  :-)

I'm lost. What is the difference between that and what HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes
does already (except for the width of the fields). I believe that to do what
you are proposing requires the same capabilities.

-Tom
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