From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Sutter Subject: [iproute PATCH 10/12] man: Add a man page for the xt action Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:11:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1457093507-25601-11-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> References: <1457093507-25601-1-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from orbyte.nwl.cc ([151.80.46.58]:36342 "EHLO mail.nwl.cc" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752477AbcCDMMG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 07:12:06 -0500 Received: from mail.nwl.cc (orbyte.nwl.cc [127.0.0.1]) by mail.nwl.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF236AF5C for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:12:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from xsao (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.nwl.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B846894E for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:12:04 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1457093507-25601-1-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Cc: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter --- man/man8/tc-xt.8 | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man8/tc-xt.8 diff --git a/man/man8/tc-xt.8 b/man/man8/tc-xt.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..4fd800cf2b8a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/tc-xt.8 @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +.TH "iptables action in tc" 8 "3 Mar 2016" "iproute2" "Linux" + +.SH NAME +xt - tc iptables action +.SH SYNOPSIS +.in +8 +.ti -8 +.BR tc " ... " "action xt \-j" +.IR TARGET " [ " TARGET_OPTS " ]" +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B xt +action allows to call arbitrary iptables targets for packets matching the filter +this action is attached to. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BI -j " TARGET \fR[\fI TARGET_OPTS \fR]" +Perform a jump to the given iptables target, optionally passing any target +specific options in +.IR TARGET_OPTS . +.SH EXAMPLES +The following will attach a +.B u32 +filter to the +.B ingress +qdisc matching ICMP replies and using the +.B xt +action to make the kernel yell 'PONG' each time: + +.RS +.EX +tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress +tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: proto ip u32 \\ + match ip protocol 1 0xff \\ + match ip icmp_type 0 0xff \\ + action xt -j LOG --log-prefix PONG +.EE +.RE +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR tc (8), +.BR tc-u32 (8), +.BR iptables-extensions (8) -- 2.7.2