Forwarding packets

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Tue Dec 4 23:40:43 EST 2007


On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:23:52PM -0500, Archana Rajagopal wrote:

> When I send iperf traffic through HostAP with ToS bits set , it is changing
> the ToS bits somehow and not classifying any packets.This happens only when
> the packet is to be forwarded to another system.Is HostAP responsible for
> this or is it a kernel problem(I am using kernel version 2.6.16).

If by "forward" you are referring to IP routing, this does not sound
like something that would be specific to Host AP driver in any way,
i.e., this is something that would be configured in the IP stack.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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