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Add Shorewall Guy's port explaination to the traffic shaping page

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evaluation of rules in this file will continue after a match. So the
final mark for each packet will be the one assigned by the LAST tcrule
that matches.</para>
<para>Also unlike rules in the <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">shorewall-rules</ulink>(5) file,
the tcrules file is not stateful. So every packet that goes into, out
of or through your firewall is subject to entries in the tcrules
file.</para>
<para>Because tcrules are not stateful, it is necessary to understand
basic IP socket operation. Here is an excerpt from a post on the
Shorewall Users list:<blockquote>
<para>For the purposes of this discussion, the world is separated
into clients and servers. Servers provide services to
clients.</para>
<para>When a server starts, it creates a socket and *binds* the
socket to an *address*. For AF_INET (IPv4) and AF_INET6 (IPv6)
sockets, that address is an ordered triple consisting of an IPv4
or IPv6 address, a protocol, and possibly a port number. Port
numbers are only used when the protocol is TCP, UDP, SCTP or SCCP.
The protocol and port number used by a server are typically
well-known so that clients will be able to connect to it. So SSH
servers bind to TCP port 22, SMTP servers bind to TCP port 25,
etc. We will call this port the SERVER PORT. </para>
<para>When a client want to use the service provided by a server,
it also creates a socket. Like the server's socket, the client's
socket must also be bound to an address. But in the case of the
client, the socket is usually given an automatic address binding.
For AF_INET and AF_INET6 sockets. the IP address is the IP address
of the client system (loose generalization) and the port number is
selected from a *local port range*. On Linux systems, the local
port ranges can be seen by 'cat
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range'. So it is not possible in
advance to determine what port the client will be using. Whatever
it is, we'll call it the CLIENT PORT. </para>
<para>Now: <blockquote>
<para>Packets send from the client to the server will
have:<blockquote>
<para>SOURCE PORT = CLIENT PORT</para>
<para>DEST PORT = SERVER PORT</para>
</blockquote></para>
<para>Packets send from the server to the client will have:
<blockquote>
<para>SOURCE PORT = SERVER PORT</para>
<para>DEST PORT = CLIENT PORT</para>
</blockquote></para>
</blockquote></para>
<para>Since the SERVER PORT is generally the only port known ahead
of time, we therefore categorize traffic from the server to the
client using the SOURCE PORT.</para>
</blockquote></para>
</important>
<para>The fwmark classifier provides a convenient way to classify