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2 Network classifier cgroup
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5 The Network classifier cgroup provides an interface to
6 tag network packets with a class identifier (classid).
8 The Traffic Controller (tc) can be used to assign
9 different priorities to packets from different cgroups.
10 Also, Netfilter (iptables) can use this tag to perform
11 actions on such packets.
13 Creating a net_cls cgroups instance creates a net_cls.classid file.
14 This net_cls.classid value is initialized to 0.
16 You can write hexadecimal values to net_cls.classid; the format for these
17 values is 0xAAAABBBB; AAAA is the major handle number and BBBB
18 is the minor handle number.
19 Reading net_cls.classid yields a decimal result.
23 mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls
24 mount -t cgroup -onet_cls net_cls /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls
25 mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0
26 echo 0x100001 > /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0/net_cls.classid
28 - setting a 10:1 handle::
30 cat /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0/net_cls.classid
35 tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 10: htb
36 tc class add dev eth0 parent 10: classid 10:1 htb rate 40mbit
38 - creating traffic class 10:1::
40 tc filter add dev eth0 parent 10: protocol ip prio 10 handle 1: cgroup
42 configuring iptables, basic example::
44 iptables -A OUTPUT -m cgroup ! --cgroup 0x100001 -j DROP