* Giancarlo Razzolini <linux-fan@onda.com.br> [2008-03-03 14:35]:
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> Tags are only visible while in the kernel. Once you send them to a
> application, unless it has the ability to set a tag, the tag will be
> lost. The ftp-proxy(8) AFAICR, since 4.1 has the ability to set a tag on
> the packet. It would be nice if more userland applications like sshd,
> spamd, hoststated, etc, could set tags too.

actually, it is not ftp-proxy that sets tags. ftp-proxy dynamically 
inserts rules and makes THEM tag the packets. that concept doesn't 
translate all that well to the other usage cases you mention.

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