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+.TH "Flow filter in tc" 8 "20 Oct 2015" "iproute2" "Linux"
+
+.SH NAME
+flow \- flow based traffic control filter
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.TP
+Mapping mode:
+
+.RS
+.in +8
+.ti -8
+.BR tc " " filter " ... " "flow map key "
+.IR KEY " [ " OPS " ] [ " OPTIONS " ] "
+.RE
+.TP
+Hashing mode:
+
+.RS
+.in +8
+.ti -8
+.BR tc " " filter " ... " "flow hash keys "
+.IR KEY_LIST " [ "
+.B perturb
+.IR secs " ] [ " OPTIONS " ] "
+.RE
+
+.in +8
+.ti -8
+.IR OPS " := [ " OPS " ] " OP
+
+.ti -8
+.IR OPTIONS " := [ "
+.B divisor
+.IR NUM " ] [ "
+.B baseclass
+.IR ID " ] [ "
+.B match
+.IR EMATCH_TREE " ] [ "
+.B action
+.IR ACTION_SPEC " ]"
+
+.ti -8
+.IR KEY_LIST " := [ " KEY_LIST " ] " KEY
+
+.ti -8
+.IR OP " := { "
+.BR or " | " and " | " xor " | " rshift " | " addend " } "
+.I NUM
+
+.ti -8
+.IR ID " := " X : Y
+
+.ti -8
+.IR KEY " := { "
+.BR src " | " dst " | " proto " | " proto-src " | " proto-dst " | " iif " | "
+.BR priority " | " mark " | " nfct " | " nfct-src " | " nfct-dst " | "
+.BR nfct-proto-src " | " nfct-proto-dst " | " rt-classid " | " sk-uid " | "
+.BR sk-gid " | " vlan-tag " | " rxhash " }"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B flow
+classifier is meant to extend the
+.B SFQ
+hashing capabilities without hard-coding new hash functions. It also allows
+deterministic mappings of keys to classes.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI action " ACTION_SPEC"
+Apply an action from the generic actions framework on matching packets.
+.TP
+.BI baseclass " ID"
+An offset for the resulting class ID.
+.I ID
+may be
+.BR root ", " none
+or a hexadecimal class ID in the form [\fIX\fB:\fR]\fIY\fR. \fIX\fR must
+match qdisc's/class's major handle (if omitted, the correct value is chosen
+automatically). If the whole \fBbaseclass\fR is omitted, \fIY\fR defaults
+to 1.
+.TP
+.BI divisor " NUM"
+Number of buckets to use for sorting into. Keys are calculated modulo
+.IR NUM .
+.TP
+.BI "hash keys " KEY-LIST
+Perform a
+.B jhash2
+operation over the keys in
+.IR KEY-LIST ,
+the result (modulo the
+.B divisor
+if given) is taken as class ID, optionally offset by the value of
+.BR baseclass .
+It is possible to specify an interval (in seconds) after which
+.BR jhash2 's
+entropy source is recreated using the
+.B perturb
+parameter.
+.TP
+.BI "map key " KEY
+Packet data identified by
+.I KEY
+is translated into class IDs to push the packet into. The value may be mangled by
+.I OPS
+before using it for the mapping. They are applied in the order listed here:
+.RS
+.TP 4
+.BI and " NUM"
+Perform bitwise
+.B AND
+operation with numeric value
+.IR NUM .
+.TP
+.BI or " NUM"
+Perform bitwise
+.B OR
+operation with numeric value
+.IR NUM .
+.TP
+.BI xor " NUM"
+Perform bitwise
+.B XOR
+operation with numeric value
+.IR NUM .
+.TP
+.BI rshift " NUM"
+Shift the value of
+.I KEY
+to the right by
+.I NUM
+bits.
+.TP
+.BI addend " NUM"
+Add
+.I NUM
+to the value of
+.IR KEY .
+
+.RE
+.RS
+For the
+.BR or ", " and ", " xor " and " rshift
+operations,
+.I NUM
+is assumed to be an unsigned, 32bit integer value. For the
+.B addend
+operation,
+.I NUM
+may be much more complex: It may be prefixed by a minus ('-') sign to cause
+subtraction instead of addition and for keys of
+.BR src ", " dst ", " nfct-src " and " nfct-dst
+it may be given in IP address notation. See below for an illustrating example.
+.RE
+.TP
+.BI match " EMATCH_TREE"
+Match packets using the extended match infrastructure. See
+.BR tc-ematch (8)
+for a detailed description of the allowed syntax in
+.IR EMATCH_TREE .
+.SH KEYS
+In mapping mode, a single key is used (after optional permutation) to build a
+class ID. The resulting ID is deducible in most cases. In hashing more, a number
+of keys may be specified which are then hashed and the output used as class ID.
+This ID is not deducible in beforehand, and may even change over time for a
+given flow if a
+.B perturb
+interval has been given.
+
+The range of class IDs can be limited by the
+.B divisor
+option, which is used for a modulus.
+.TP
+.BR src ", " dst
+Use source or destination address as key. In case of IPv4 and TIPC, this is the
+actual address value. For IPv6, the 128bit address is folded into a 32bit value
+by XOR'ing the four 32bit words. In all other cases, the kernel-internal socket
+address is used (after folding into 32bits on 64bit systems).
+.TP
+.B proto
+Use the layer four protocol number as key.
+.TP
+.B proto-src
+Use the layer four source port as key. If not available, the kernel-internal
+socket address is used instead.
+.TP
+.B proto-dst
+Use the layer four destination port as key. If not available, the associated
+kernel-internal dst_entry address is used after XOR'ing with the packet's
+layer three protocol number.
+.TP
+.B iif
+Use the incoming interface index as key.
+.TP
+.B priority
+Use the packet's priority as key. Usually this is the IP header's DSCP/ECN
+value.
+.TP
+.B mark
+Use the netfilter
+.B fwmark
+as key.
+.TP
+.B nfct
+Use the associated conntrack entry address as key.
+.TP
+.BR nfct-src ", " nfct-dst ", " nfct-proto-src ", " nfct-proto-dst
+These are conntrack-aware variants of
+.BR src ", " dst ", " proto-src " and " proto-dst .
+In case of NAT, these are basically the packet header's values before NAT was
+applied.
+.TP
+.B rt-classid
+Use the packet's destination routing table entry's realm as key.
+.TP
+.B sk-uid
+.TQ
+.B sk-gid
+For locally generated packets, use the user or group ID the originating socket
+belongs to as key.
+.TP
+.B vlan-tag
+Use the packet's vlan ID as key.
+.TP
+.B rxhash
+Use the flow hash as key.
+
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+Classic SFQ hash:
+
+.EX
+tc filter add ... flow hash \\
+ keys src,dst,proto,proto-src,proto-dst divisor 1024
+.EE
+.TP
+Classic SFQ hash, but using information from conntrack to work properly in combination with NAT:
+
+.EX
+tc filter add ... flow hash \\
+ keys nfct-src,nfct-dst,proto,nfct-proto-src,nfct-proto-dst \\
+ divisor 1024
+.EE
+.TP
+Map destination IPs of 192.168.0.0/24 to classids 1-256:
+
+.EX
+tc filter add ... flow map \\
+ key dst addend -192.168.0.0 divisor 256
+.EE
+.TP
+Alternative to the above:
+
+.EX
+tc filter add ... flow map \\
+ key dst and 0xff
+.EE
+.TP
+The same, but in reverse order:
+
+.EX
+tc filter add ... flow map \\
+ key dst and 0xff xor 0xff
+.EE
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR tc (8),
+.BR tc-ematch (8),
+.BR tc-sfq (8)