Simple action in tc(8) Linux Simple action in tc(8) (NAME) tc-simple - (SYNOPSIS) tc ... action simple [ sdata STRING ] [ index INDEX ] [ CONTROL ] CONTROL := { reclassify | pipe | drop | continue | ok } (DESCRIPTION) . STRING . (OPTIONS) sdata STRING . index INDEX (index) . CONTROL tc . CONTROL tc-actions(8) . (EXAMPLES) ICMP eth0 <> . : 1) qdisc (ingress) eth0 2) ingress eth0 ICMP simple . 3) 4) ( ) 5) grep 6) $ tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress $ tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 5 \ u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:1 action simple sdata "Incoming ICMP" $ sudo tc -s filter ls dev eth0 parent ffff: filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 fh 800: ht divisor 1 filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 fh 800::800 order 2048 key ht 800 bkt 0 flowid 1:1 match 00010000/00ff0000 at 8 action order 1: Simple index 4 ref 1 bind 1 installed 29 sec used 29 sec Action statistics: Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 $ ping -c 1 www.google.ca PING www.google.ca (74.125.225.120) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from ord08s08-in-f24.1e100.net (74.125.225.120): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=31.3 ms --- www.google.ca ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.316/31.316/31.316/0.000 ms $ dmesg | grep simple [135354.473951] simple: Incoming ICMP_1 $ sudo tc/tc -s filter ls dev eth0 parent ffff: filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 fh 800: ht divisor 1 filter protocol ip pref 5 u32 fh 800::800 order 2048 key ht 800 bkt 0 flowid 1:1 match 00010000/00ff0000 at 8 action order 1: Simple index 4 ref 1 bind 1 installed 206 sec used 67 sec Action statistics: Sent 84 bytes 1 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) backlog 0b 0p requeues 0 (SEE ALSO) tc(8), tc-actions(8) iproute2 12 Jan 2015 Simple action in tc(8)