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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: Unable to receive data Netlinks sockets
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:28:07 +0100
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Hi,

Swaroop Ashish wrote:

> I want to write a test program to
>receive all the packets recieved on the system via this test program
>using Netlinks sockets.  Can anyone please tell me what is wrong in the
>following program and what configuration/rules should be added to
>Iptables to do the same.
>  
>

if you want to play around with ip_queue, the module which let you send 
packets from kernel space to user space and vice-versa, you *should* use 
libipq instead of using raw netlink sockets, please have a look at 
libipq available in iptables source code.

regards,
Pablo