[flow-tools] flow-filter patch to support tag filtering

[Mark Fullmer]

0.58 has a new flow-filter which will allow matching tags 
individually (hash) or as a value/mask pair (linear list).

mark

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:03:38PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> 
> 
> first off, congratulation to mark for adding his much awaited tag support 
> for flow-tools. (applause). this is a much more elegant solution to the 
> billing and traffic accounting problem than the flow-split of migz and i. 
> 
> anyway, i would like to submit this patch for adding tag filtering support 
> for flow-filter. i feel this is useful to tracing untagged traffic or 
> specifically tagged traffic for diagnostics.
> 
> i will have to admit this is not a very elegant solution because i still 
> used mark's 16bit load_lookup(). i simply split the input into two parts 
> and load them into the two tables. if anybody can give me a better solution 
> i would really appreciate it. 
> 
> cheers!
> 
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