Subject: Re: [iproute2 PATCH 1/1] tc simple action update and breakage

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 10:58:48 -0400

On 16-05-08 10:44 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
>
> Brings it closer to more serious actions (adding branching
> and allowing for late binding)
>
> Unfortunately this breaks old syntax of the simple action.
> But because simple is a pedagogical example unlikely to be used
> in production environments (i.e its role is to serve as an example
> on how to write actions), then this is ok.
>
> New syntax for simple has new keyword "sdata". Example usage is:
>
> sudo tc actions add action simple sdata "foobar" index 1
> or
> tc filter add dev $DEV parent ffff: protocol ip prio 1 u32\
> match ip dst 17.0.0.1/32 flowid 1:10 action simple sdata "foobar"
>
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>

Please ignore - doesnt pass all tests. I will resend v2

cheers,
jamal