ctinfo action in tc(8) Linux ctinfo action in tc(8)
NAME
ctinfo - tc connmark processing action
SYNOPSIS
tc ... action ctinfo [ dscp MASK [STATEMASK] ] [ cpmark [MASK] ] [ zone
ZONE ] [ CONTROL ] [ index <INDEX> ]
DESCRIPTION
CTINFO (Conntrack Information) is a tc action for retrieving data from
conntrack marks into various fields. At present it has two independent
processing modes which may be viewed as sub-functions.
DSCP mode copies a DSCP stored in conntrack's connmark into the IPv4/v6
diffserv field. The copying may conditionally occur based on a flag
also stored in the connmark. DSCP mode was designed to assist in
restoring packet classifications on ingress, classifications which may
then be used by qdiscs such as CAKE. It may be used in any circumstance
where ingress classification needs to be maintained across links that
otherwise bleach or remap according to their own policies.
CPMARK (copymark) mode copies the conntrack connmark into the packet's
mark field. Without additional parameters it is functionally completely
equivalent to the existing connmark action. An optional mask may be
specified to mask which bits of the connmark are restored. This may be
useful when DSCP and CPMARK modes are combined.
Simple statistics (tc -s) on DSCP restores and CPMARK copies are main-
tained where values for set indicate a count of packets altered for that
mode. DSCP includes an error count where the destination packet's diff-
serv field was unwriteable.
PARAMETERS
DSCP mode parameters:
mask A mask of 6 contiguous bits indicating where the DSCP value is
located in the 32 bit conntrack mark field. A mask must be pro-
vided for this mode. mask is a 32 bit unsigned value.
statemask
A mask of at least 1 bit indicating where a conditional restore
flag is located in the 32 bit conntrack mark field. The
statemask bit/s must NOT overlap the mask bits. The DSCP will be
restored if the conntrack mark logically ANDed with the statemask
yields a non-zero result. statemask is an optional unsigned 32
bit value.
CPMARK mode parameters:
mask Store the logically ANDed result of conntrack mark and mask into
the packet's mark field. Default is 0xffffffff i.e. the whole
mark field. mask is an optional unsigned 32 bit value
Overall action parameters:
zone Specify the conntrack zone when doing conntrack lookups for pack-
ets. zone is a 16bit unsigned decimal value. Default is 0.
CONTROL
The following keywords allow one to control how the tree of
qdisc, classes, filters and actions is further traversed after
this action.
reclassify
Restart with the first filter in the current list.
pipe Continue with the next action attached to the same filter.
drop Drop the packet.
shot synonym for drop
continue
Continue classification with the next filter in line.
pass Finish classification process and return to calling qdisc
for further packet processing. This is the default.
index Specify an index for this action in order to being able to iden-
tify it in later commands. index is a 32bit unsigned decimal
value.
EXAMPLES
Example showing conditional restoration of DSCP on ingress via an IFB
#Set up the IFB interface
tc qdisc add dev ifb4eth0 handle ffff: ingress
#Put CAKE qdisc on it
tc qdisc add dev ifb4eth0 root cake bandwidth 40mbit
#Set interface UP
ip link set dev ifb4eth0 up
#Add 2 actions, ctinfo to restore dscp & mirred to redirect the packets to IFB
tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol all prio 10 u32 \
match u32 0 0 flowid 1:1 action \
ctinfo dscp 0xfc000000 0x01000000 \
mirred egress redirect dev ifb4eth0
tc -s qdisc show dev eth0 ingress
filter parent ffff: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0
filter parent ffff: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0 fh 800: ht divisor 1
filter parent ffff: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0 fh 800::800 order 2048 key ht 800 bkt 0 flowid 1:1 not_in_hw
match 00000000/00000000 at 0
action order 1: ctinfo zone 0 pipe
index 2 ref 1 bind 1 dscp 0xfc000000 0x01000000 installed 72 sec used 0 sec DSCP set 1333 error 0 CPMARK set 0
Action statistics:
Sent 658484 bytes 1833 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
action order 2: mirred (Egress Redirect to device ifb4eth0) stolen
index 1 ref 1 bind 1 installed 72 sec used 0 sec
Action statistics:
Sent 658484 bytes 1833 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
Example showing conditional restoration of DSCP on egress
This may appear nonsensical since iptables marking of egress packets is
easy to achieve, however the iptables flow classification rules may be
extensive and so some sort of set once and forget may be useful espe-
cially on cpu constrained devices.
# Send unmarked connections to a marking chain which needs to store a DSCP
and set statemask bit in the connmark
iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m connmark \
--mark 0x00000000/0x01000000 -g CLASS_MARKING_CHAIN
# Apply marked DSCP to the packets
tc filter add dev eth0 protocol all prio 10 u32 \
match u32 0 0 flowid 1:1 action \
ctinfo dscp 0xfc000000 0x01000000
tc -s filter show dev eth0
filter parent 800e: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0
filter parent 800e: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0 fh 800: ht divisor 1
filter parent 800e: protocol all pref 10 u32 chain 0 fh 800::800 order 2048 key ht 800 bkt 0 flowid 1:1 not_in_hw
match 00000000/00000000 at 0
action order 1: ctinfo zone 0 pipe
index 1 ref 1 bind 1 dscp 0xfc000000 0x01000000 installed 7414 sec used 0 sec DSCP set 53404 error 0 CPMARK set 0
Action statistics:
Sent 32890260 bytes 120441 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
SEE ALSO
tc(8), tc-cake(8) tc-connmark(8) tc-mirred(8)
AUTHORS
ctinfo was written by Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant.
iproute2 4 Jun 2019 ctinfo action in tc(8)
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