gact - generic action
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Description
The gact action allows reclassify, dropping, passing, or accepting packets. At the moment there are only
two algorithms. One is deterministic and the other uses internal kernel netrand.
Examples
Apply a rule on ingress to drop packets from a given source address.
# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 6 u32 match ip src 10.0.0.9/32 flowid 1:16 action drop
Allow 1 out 10 packets from source randomly using the netrand generator
# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 6 u32 match ip src 10.0.0.9/32 flowid 1:16 action drop random netrand ok 10
Deterministically accept every second packet
# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 6 u32 match ip src 10.0.0.9/32 flowid 1:16 action drop random determ ok 2
Name
gact - generic action
Options
randomRANDTYPECONTROLVAL
The probability of taking the action expressed in terms of 1 out of VAL packets.
CONTROL
Indicate how tc should proceed if the packet matches. For a description of the possible CONTROL
values, see tc-actions(8).
See Also
tc(8), tc-actions(8), tc-u32(8) iproute2 11 Jan 2023 Genericactionsintc(8)
Synopsis
tc ... actiongactCONTROL [ RAND ] [ INDEX ]
CONTROL := { reclassify | drop | continue | pass | pipe |
gotochainCHAIN_INDEX |
jumpJUMP_COUNT }
RAND := randomRANDTYPECONTROLVALRANDTYPE := { netrand | determ }
VAL := number not exceeding 10000
JUMP_COUNT := absolute jump from start of action list
INDEX := index value used
