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Chapter V. Classification and Filtering
action : Ingress packet disposition.
pass : Ingress packets will be passed through set ingress queues.
switch : Ingress packets will be routed to an output port with optional header rewrite.
drop : Ingress packets will be dropped.
In case of multiple filter rules, the rule with the lowest filter index takes higher
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priority.
2.2.1. Examples
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Drop action
[root@host~]# cxgbetool t6nexY filter 0 action drop sip 192.168.1.5
The above filter rule will drop all ingress packets from IP 192.168.1.5
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Pass action
[root@host~]# cxgbetool t6nexY filter 0 action pass sport 10001 dport 355
queue 2
The above filter rule will pass all ingress packets that match source port 10001 and destination
port 355 to the ingress queue with context id 2 for load balancing.
The context id for a particular ingress queue can be obtained using
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[root@host~]# sysctl dev.cxgbe.X.rxq.Y.cntxt_id
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Switch action
[root@host~]# cxgbetool t6nexY filter 0 action switch iport 0 eport 1 vlan 3
The above filter rule will route all ingress packets that match VLAN id 3 from port 0 of Chelsio
adapter to port 1. Remaining packets will be sent to the host.
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