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NAME

       fw - fwmark traffic control filter

SYNOPSIS

       tc filter ... fw [ classid CLASSID ] [ action ACTION_SPEC ]

DESCRIPTION

       the fw filter allows one to classify packets based on a
       previously set fwmark by iptables.  If the masked value of the
       fwmark matches the filter's masked handle, the filter matches. By
       default, all 32 bits of the handle and the fwmark are masked.
       iptables allows one to mark single packets with the MARK target,
       or whole connections using CONNMARK.  The benefit of using this
       filter instead of doing the heavy-lifting with tc itself is that
       on one hand it might be convenient to keep packet filtering and
       classification in one place, possibly having to match a packet
       just once, and on the other users familiar with iptables but not
       tc will have a less hard time adding QoS to their setups.

OPTIONS

       classid CLASSID
              Push matching packets to the class identified by CLASSID.

       action ACTION_SPEC
              Apply an action from the generic actions framework on
              matching packets.

EXAMPLES

       Take e.g. the following tc filter statement:

              tc filter add ... handle 6 fw classid 1:1

       will match if the packet's fwmark value is 6.  This is a sample
       iptables statement marking packets coming in on eth0:

              iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j MARK --set-mark 6

       Specific bits of the packet's fwmark can be set using the skbedit
       action. For example, to only set one bit of the fwmark without
       changing any other bit:

              tc filter add ... action skbedit mark 0x8/0x8

       The fw filter can then be used to match on this bit by masking
       the handle:

              tc filter add ... handle 0x8/0x8 fw action drop

       This is useful when different bits of the fwmark are assigned
       different meanings.

SEE ALSO

       tc(8), iptables(8), iptables-extensions(8), tc-skbedit(8)

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