Each tc action is terminated by a control action. Each action parses and
prints then intividually. Introduce set of helpers and allow to share
this code.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
This action is intended to be an upgrade from a usability perspective
from pedit (as well as operational debugability).
Compare this:
sudo tc filter add dev $ETH parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 \
u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:2 \
action pedit munge offset -14 u8 set 0x02 \
munge offset -13 u8 set 0x15 \
munge offset -12 u8 set 0x15 \
munge offset -11 u8 set 0x15 \
munge offset -10 u16 set 0x1515 \
pipe
to:
sudo tc filter add dev $ETH parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 \
u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:2 \
action skbmod dmac 02:15:15:15:15:15
Or worse, try to debug a policy with destination mac, source mac and
etherype. Then make that a hundred rules and you'll get my point.
The most important ethernet use case at the moment is when redirecting or
mirroring packets to a remote machine. The dst mac address needs a re-write
so that it doesn't get dropped or confuse an interconnecting (learning) switch
or dropped by a target machine (which looks at the dst mac).
In the future common use cases on pedit can be migrated to this action
(as an example different fields in ip v4/6, transports like tcp/udp/sctp
etc). For this first cut, this allows modifying basic ethernet header.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
