On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:09:54 +1000 Russell Strong <russ...@strong.id.au> wrote:
> Hello, > > After needing to do policy based routing based on DSCP, I discovered > that IPv4 does not support this. It does support TOS, but this has > never been upgraded to the new ( now quite old ) DSCP interpretation. > > Is there a historical reason why the interpretation has not changed? > > I could copy the dscp into a fwmark and then use that, but that seems a > little unnecessarily complicated. If I were to change this, what would > be the objections? > > Russell Probably a couple of reasons: no one needed it badly enough to work on it. And more importantly any change would have to retain the legacy behavior as the default.
