Hi all,

Is there a way to insert custom metadata in a packet (other than the match
tuple) that can then be extracted in a switch? Specifically, I am looking
for something like Click's Paint element that allows marking packets with a
'color'. Later, another network element can look at the color and use it to
decide forwarding behavior.

Initially, I was thinking of using VLAN tags for this. But then, those tags
can collide with tags used in the underlying network and can create
confusion.

http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/elements/paint

Thanks
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