[Cerowrt-devel] cerowrt 3.10.17-3 released

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:27:02 -0700
Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > With TC you can apply an action to packets coming in.
> > One of those actions is mirred (not a typo) which mirrors the packet
> > to another device. There is both mirror and redirect possible.
> >
> > Jamal invented this years ago, but actions are not widely used.
> 
> I use this technique for an input redirect into ifb for cerowrt's
> shaper. It works
> well.
> 
> > Inside Vyatta CLI wrappers, the port-mirroring capability converts to tc
> > commands. For example doing SPAN equivalent from eth0 to eth1 is:
> >
> >   tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: \
> >      protocol all prio 10 u32 \
> >      match u32 0 0 flowid 1:1 \
> >      action mirred egress mirror dev eth1
> 
> In this case the device on eth1 would have to be an entirely passive
> device otherwise it will attempt to interact with that traffic (?) In
> the case of cero, it has two ethernet devices available, one hooked
> directly into a switch, and as many wifi ones as you want. What would
> probably work would be to split off a dedicated vlan port for the
> mirror and send stuff to dev eth1.4 - (for example) so long as the
> listening server was entirely passive.

Yes, eth1 was assumed passive. 

> 
>  tc filter add dev sw00 parent ffff: \
>        protocol all prio 10 u32 \
>        match u32 0 0 flowid 1:1 \
>       action mirred egress mirror dev se00.4

That should work but doing mirror from se00 to se00.4 would create
a death spiral.

> 
> but you'd also want to do it on ingress too. (?)
> 
> I forget the syntax for splitting off a vlan port in cero...
> 
> > The actions apply to a filter, and this seemed to be a workable (match all)
> > filter.
> 
> Both directions?

This was done on ingress only.