On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 01:54:34PM +0200, Paul Blakey wrote:

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Hi Paul,

> Matching name was from the idea that we are doing is matching.
> And regarding documentation/flag names I didn't want tc tool to be need of a
> update each time a new flag is introduced,
> But I guess I can add two options like with ip_proto where you can specify
> known flags by name but can also give a value.
> What do you think about that?
> 
> flags <FLAGS> / <HEX'/'HEX>
> FLAGS => frag/no_frag/tcp_syn/no_tcp_syn ['|'<FLAGS>]*
> e.g: flags frag|no_tcp_syn or flags 0x01/0x15
> and the mask will have a on bits corresponds only to those flags specified.

I suppose a flag is a flag and bitwise masking allows arbitrary matching
on one or more flags. But I wonder if, as per your example above,
it makes sense to mix IP (frag) and TCP flags in the same field of the
classifier.

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