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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: Increasing skb->mark size
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:36:02 +0100
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Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> I'm emailing this list for feedback on the feasibility of increasing
> skb->mark or adding a new field for marking. Perhaps this extension
> could be done under a new CONFIG option. Perhaps there are other ways we
> could achieve the desired behaviour?

Well I pointed you towards connlabels which provide 128 bit of space
in the conntrack extension area but you did not tell me why you cannot
use it.