On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:48 +0300, alex wrote:
> >> Accordingly this advice from 'traffic_shaping.htm':
> >> 
> >> Normally, packet marking occurs in the PREROUTING chain before any 
> >>address 
> >> rewriting takes place. This makes it impossible to mark inbound packets 
> >> based on their destination address when SNAT or Masquerading are being 
> >> used. You can cause packet marking to occur in the FORWARD chain by 
> >>using 
> >> the MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN option in shorewall.conf.
> >> 
> >>     i MUST use 'MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes' or ':F' suffix in a lot of 
> >> rules
> >> in 'tcrules' if i use NAT/SNAT (configured in 'masq' file) and want to 
> >>use
> >> internal (private) IP-addresses (or networks) in 'tcrules'.
> >>     Do i correct understand?
> > 
> > The only time where the above applies is if you want to mark incoming
> > traffic by its destination IP and you are SNAT/Masquerading.
>   
>    Destination address is local (not external) IPs?
>    And i can want this only for tc-rules for external interface.
>    Am i right?

If the destination address is LOCAL, then the traffic is going out of
the LOCAL interface. So this would only apply if you are shaping the
LOCAL interface.

-Tom
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