Missing ipproto keyword in network config rule section

[TheRainstorm]

The ip-rule¹ utility supports the ipproto keyword, allowing us to route UDP traffic differently using the following command:

ip ru add from all ipproto udp table udp_table prior 10

The ip utility in Openwrt also supports this keyword. Howerver, In Luci, there is no option to configure the ipproto keyword. The network configuration file /etc/configure/network also does not support it either. ²

As a result, to implement routing according to L4 protocol, we can only use command line or route using fwmark with the help of nftables. It would be more convenient if support for the ipproto keyword were added.

Steps to reproduce:

1. go to: Network → Routing→ IPv4 rules
2. no method to set ipproto

Additional Information:

OpenWrt version information from system /etc/openwrt_release

DISTRIB_ID='OpenWrt'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='23.05.0'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r23497-6637af95aa'
DISTRIB_TARGET='x86/64'
DISTRIB_ARCH='x86_64'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='OpenWrt 23.05.0 r23497-6637af95aa'
DISTRIB_TAINTS=''

I have also installed ip-full

Footnotes

1. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-rule.8.html ↩

2. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/routing/ip_rules ↩

[systemcrash]

This is not complex to add within luci, but luci depends on what exists in the openwrt base system. I sent a patch for netifd to the mailing list and opened a PR which will probably take about 17 years to get acknowledged.

See openwrt/netifd#36