Add the iproute2 support for the ACT_CSUM action. Can be used as
following, certainly in conjunction with the ACT_PEDIT action (pedit):
# In order to DNAT (stateless) IPv4 packet from 192.168.1.100 to
# 0x12345678 (18.52.86.120), and update the IPv4 header checksum and
# the UDP checksum (the last one, only if the packet is UDP).
tc filter add eth0 prio 1 protocol ip parent ffff: \
u32 match ip src 192.168.1.100/32 flowid :1 \
action pedit munge offset 16 u32 set 0x12345678 \
pipe csum ip and udp
# In order to alter destination address of IPv6 TCP packets from fc00::1
# and correct the TCP checksum (nothing happened? except maybe for
# checksums in the TCP payload ...).
tc filter add eth0 prio 1 protocol ipv6 parent ffff: \
u32 match ip6 src fc00::1/128 match ip6 protocol 0x06 0xff flowid :1 \
action pedit munge offset 24 u32 set 0x12345678 \
pipe csum tcp
Kernel code and interface.
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* Compile time switches
There is only one, but very important, compile time switch.
It is not settable by "make config", but should be selected
manually and after a bit of thinking in <include/net/pkt_sched.h>
PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE can take three values:
PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY
PSCHED_JIFFIES
PSCHED_CPU
PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY
Default setting is the most conservative PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY.
It is very slow both because of weird slowness of do_gettimeofday()
and because it forces code to use unnatural "timeval" format,
where microseconds and seconds fields are separate.
Besides that, it will misbehave, when delays exceed 2 seconds
(f.e. very slow links or classes bounded to small slice of bandwidth)
To resume: as only you will get it working, select correct clock
source and forget about PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY forever.
PSCHED_JIFFIES
Clock is derived from jiffies. On architectures with HZ=100
granularity of this clock is not enough to make reasonable
bindings to real time. However, taking into account Linux
architecture problems, which force us to use artificial
integrated clock in any case, this switch is not so bad
for schduling even on high speed networks, though policing
is not reliable.
PSCHED_CPU
It is available only for alpha and pentiums with correct
CPU timestamp. It is the fastest way, use it when it is available,
but remember: not all pentiums have this facility, and
a lot of them have clock, broken by APM etc. etc.