Re: a libipq problem(FAQ cannot help)

[Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>]

Hi He Ke,

He Ke wrote:

>Hello,
>i've now got a serious problem on the libipq programming.I wrote an application
>which gets 
>packets from iptables's QUEUE target(ip_queue&ip6_queue),and then deals with
>them(drop,accept,...).
>It works well with normal amout of packets,but when packets comes above 10M/s,it
>dies soon,and show
> "Failed to received netlink message: No buffer space available".
>  
>

this problem is netlink sockets related, so ipqueue inherits it because 
it's built on top of them...

>   I've checked the FAQ,it says "you can tune their receive buffer sizes via
> /proc/sys/net/core, sysctl, or use the SO_RCVBUF socket option on the file
> descriptor".I tried them both , but it doesn't work,my application still die
>soon
> when it meets packets above 10M/s.
>   I tuned
>  /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
>  /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
>  
>

I just submitted a patch which fixes this problem, it will go into 2.6.9 
if everything goes ok.

It's also available here, 2.6.x version:
http://eurodev.net/~pablo/netlink-workqueue-2.patch

2.4.x patch version is on the way, stay tuned.

regards,
Pablo