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Message-ID: <20151023221941.GH22096@orbit.nwl.cc>
Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:19:41 +0200
From:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [iproute RFC PATCH 0/9] Document tc filters

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:13:02PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 10/23/15 at 07:47pm, Phil Sutter wrote:
> >  man/man8/Makefile     |   4 +-
> >  man/man8/tc-basic.8   |  34 +++
> >  man/man8/tc-cgroup.8  |  80 ++++++
> >  man/man8/tc-flow.8    | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  man/man8/tc-flower.8  | 113 +++++++++
> >  man/man8/tc-fw.8      |  66 +++++
> >  man/man8/tc-route.8   |  74 ++++++
> >  man/man8/tc-tcindex.8 |  58 +++++
> >  man/man8/tc-u32.8     | 663 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> This basically says everything regarding the usability of u32 ;-)

Quoting myself:

> Due to breaking everything down to values, masks and offsets, It is                            
> equally powerful and hard to use.

When I wrote that, I still had little idea of nexthdr+ and hash table
giblets. And even after digging through the code for quite some time,
I'm sure I don't.

> Joke aside, thanks so much for doing this work. This is wonderful.

Thanks a lot. I'm not entirely sure though the amount of correct
information prevails the factual errors. :)

Cheers, Phil
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