On 8/22/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Count Of Dracula wrote: > > There are couple of excellent patches available from > > http://www.ssi.bg/~ja for advance routing,load balancing,link-failover > > etc. > > > > Any idea why these patches are not yet integrated into the upstream kernel? > > why dont you ask upstream :) > > - KB Well.Here is a reply from Julian himself. Maintainers don't like the idea to use output device index as routing key. There was discussion on masquerading issues: Here is a link for start of such discussion: http://marc.info/?t=109389731400005&r=2&w=2 Still, in response to these problems CONNMARK was pushed to 2.6: http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=107434321724522&w=2 Also, the patches are not suitable for kernel because they require scripts/daemons to ping gateways in multipath routes.