Mangle not marking connections

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1

I have this problem with mangle

I have created a mangle rules like this:

 3   ;;; Mark Hotspot Connection
     chain=prerouting action=mark-connection new-connection-mark=HotSpot_Conxn passthrough=yes src-address-list=[b]Hotspot[/b] 
 4   ;;; Mark Hotspot Connection
     chain=prerouting action=mark-connection new-connection-mark=HotSpot_Conxn passthrough=yes dst-address-list=[b]Hotspot[/b] 
 5   ;;; Mark HotSpot Packet
     chain=prerouting action=mark-packet new-packet-mark=HotSpot_Pkt passthrough=no connection-mark=HotSpot_Conxn

but when I look at connections, some of them are marked and some are not; this ip is in the Hotspot address list above
I do not exactly know how Mikrotik marks connections and why this happens, but I can not use queues effectively because of this.

2

I think you need to add a “connection-state=new” to your mark connection mangle rules.

Here is an example of what I use (I use the forward chain but it will work as well on the pre-routing chain):

add action=mark-connection chain=forward connection-state=new dst-address-list=X new-connection-mark=conn-X

Hope that helps.

3

Thank you for the hint, I will try and see the results

I want to figure out how mangle works, what happens if we do not state any connection-state= setting? will it mark all connections? will it only mark new connections? what is the default behavior?

documentation is so poor for mangle :frowning: