
Very funky action. I do plan to add to a few more things to it
This is the basic stuff. Idea borrowed from the way ethernet switches
mirror and redirect packets.

Usage: 

mirred <DIRECTION> <ACTION> [index INDEX] <dev DEVICENAME> 
where: 
DIRECTION := <ingress | egress>
ACTION := <mirror | redirect>
INDEX is the specific policy instance id
DEVICENAME is the devicename


Mirroring essentially takes a copy of the packet whereas redirecting
steals the packet and redirects to specified destination.

Some examples:
Host A is hooked  up to us on eth0

tc qdisc add dev lo ingress
# redirect all packets arriving on ingress of lo to eth0
tc filter add dev lo parent ffff: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \
match u32 0 0 flowid 1:2 action mirred egress redirect dev eth0

On host A start a tcpdump on interface connecting to us.

on our host ping -c 2 127.0.0.1

Ping would fail sinc all packets are heading out eth0
tcpudmp on host A would show them

if you substitute the redirect with mirror above as in:
tc filter add dev lo parent ffff: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \
match u32 0 0 flowid 1:2 action mirred egress mirror dev eth0

Then you should see the packets on both host A and the local
stack (i.e ping would work).

Even more funky example:

#
#allow 1 out 10 packets to randomly make it to the 
# host A (Randomness uses the netrand generator)
#
tc filter add dev lo parent ffff: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \
match u32 0 0 flowid 1:2 \
action drop random determ ok 10\
action mirred egress mirror dev eth0

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Example 2:
# for packets coming from 10.0.0.9:
#Redirect packets on egress (to ISP A) if you exceed a certain rate
# to eth1 (to ISP B) if you exceed a certain rate
#

tc qdisc add dev eth0 handle 1:0 root prio

tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 6 u32 \
match ip src 10.0.0.9/32 flowid 1:16 \
action police rate 100kbit burst 90k ok \
action mirred egress mirror dev eth1

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A more interesting example is when you mirror flows to a dummy device
so you could tcpdump them (dummy by defaults drops all devices it sees).
This is a very useful debug feature.