route classifiers and mirred actions

route classifiers and mirred actions

[John A. Sullivan III]

Hello, all.  I may have a workaround for the problem we have using netem
with ingress filters but I have hit a roadblock in implementing it.  It
appears I cannot use an action with a route classifier.  Specifically:

root@testswitch01:~# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 50 route fromif eth1 action mirred egress redirect dev ifb1
What is "action"?
Usage: ... route [ from REALM | fromif TAG ] [ to REALM ]
                [ flowid CLASSID ] [ police POLICE_SPEC ]
       POLICE_SPEC := ... look at TBF
       CLASSID := X:Y

NOTE: CLASSID is parsed as hexadecimal input.
root@testswitch01:~# tc action add action mirred help
Usage: mirred <DIRECTION> <ACTION> [index INDEX] <dev DEVICENAME>
where:
        DIRECTION := <ingress | egress>
        ACTION := <mirror | redirect>
        INDEX  is the specific policy instance id
        DEVICENAME is the devicename

Yet, this works:

root@testswitch01:~# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 50 u32 match u32 0 0 action mirred egress redirect dev ifb1

and this works:

root@testswitch01:~# tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 1 route fromif eth1 classid 1:10


So why does the u32 classifier work with actions, the route classifier
work with classids, but the route classifier does not work with actions?
Thanks - John