Commit ab872442 authored by Vadim Kochan's avatar Vadim Kochan Committed by Stephen Hemminger

man ip-link: Add little explanations about VLAN qos map

Add little more info about how to manually set priority by iptables,
and some little clarifications about ingress/egress QoS mapping.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
parent fcc16c22
......@@ -349,10 +349,30 @@ where <phy_dev> is the physical device to which VLAN device is bound.
- specifies whether the VLAN device state is bound to the physical device state.
.BI ingress-qos-map " QOS-MAP "
- defines a mapping between priority code points on incoming frames. The format is FROM:TO with multiple mappings separated by spaces.
- defines a mapping of VLAN header prio field to the Linux internal packet
priority on incoming frames. The format is FROM:TO with multiple mappings
separated by spaces.
.BI egress-qos-map " QOS-MAP "
- the same as ingress-qos-map but for outgoing frames.
- defines a mapping of Linux internal packet priority to VLAN header prio field
but for outgoing frames. The format is the same as for ingress-qos-map.
.in +4
Linux packet priority can be set by
.BR iptables "(8)":
.in +4
.sp
.B iptables
-t mangle -A POSTROUTING [...] -j CLASSIFY --set-class 0:4
.sp
.in -4
and this "4" priority can be used in the egress qos mapping to set VLAN prio "5":
.sp
.in +4
.B ip
link set veth0.10 type vlan egress 4:5
.in -4
.in -4
.in -8
.TP
......@@ -1090,7 +1110,8 @@ IEEE 802.15.4 device wpan0.
.br
.BR ip (8),
.BR ip-netns (8),
.BR ethtool (8)
.BR ethtool (8),
.BR iptables (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci@owl.openwall.com>
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