- CONTROL has to come last, otherwise 'index' applies to gact and not
simple itself.
- Man page wasn't updated to reflect syntax changes.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
---
man/man8/tc-simple.8 | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
tc/m_simple.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/tc-simple.8 b/man/man8/tc-simple.8
index 2206dc3b88614..7363ab563e189 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-simple.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-simple.8
@@ -6,15 +6,37 @@ simple - basic example action
.in +8
.ti -8
.BR tc " ... " "action simple"
-.I STRING
+[
+.BI sdata " STRING"
+] [
+.BI index " INDEX"
+] [
+.I CONTROL
+]
+
+.ti -8
+.IR CONTROL " := {"
+.BR reclassify " | " pipe " | " drop " | " continue " | " ok " }"
+
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is a pedagogical example rather than an actually useful action. Upon
every access, it prints the given
.I STRING
which may be of arbitrary length.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.I STRING
+.BI sdata " STRING"
The actual string to print.
+.TP
+.BI index " INDEX"
+Optional action index value.
+.TP
+.I CONTROL
+Indicate how
+.B tc
+should proceed after executing the action. For a description of the possible
+.I CONTROL
+values, see
+.BR tc-actions (8).
.SH EXAMPLES
The following example makes the kernel yell "Incoming ICMP!" every time it sees
an incoming ICMP on eth0. Steps are:
@@ -36,7 +58,7 @@ display stats again and observe increment by 1
.EX
hadi@noma1:$ tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress
hadi@noma1:$tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 5 \\
- u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:1 action simple "Incoming ICMP"
+ u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:1 action simple sdata "Incoming
ICMP"
hadi@noma1:$ sudo tc -s filter ls dev eth0 parent ffff:
filter protocol ip pref 5 u32
@@ -74,3 +96,4 @@ display stats again and observe increment by 1
.EE
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR tc (8)
+.BR tc-actions (8)
diff --git a/tc/m_simple.c b/tc/m_simple.c
index a4457c70324ee..800cf7d703be6 100644
--- a/tc/m_simple.c
+++ b/tc/m_simple.c
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
#endif
static void explain(void)
{
- fprintf(stderr, "Usage:... simple [sdata STRING] [CONTROL] [index
INDEX]\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage:... simple [sdata STRING] [index INDEX]
[CONTROL]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\tSTRING being an arbitrary string\n"
- "\tCONTROL := reclassify|pipe|drop|continue|ok\n"
"\tINDEX := optional index value used\n");
+ "\tCONTROL := reclassify|pipe|drop|continue|ok\n"
}
static void usage(void)
--
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