Re: libnl netfilter log

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:

>> Somewhat related, there currently is a problem with message
>> reception since libnl uses a page-sized buffer for recvmsg(),
>> but netfilter can send messages up to 64k. I recall there
>> was some recvmsg buffer size probing some time ago, but it
>> seems to be gone. Should I reintroduce it, increase the size
>> to 64k or make it configurable?
> 
> If you reintroduce the probing I think that something similar to the
> libnfnetlink behaviour would be fine. But, indeed, I prefer to make it
> configurable.


Me too, and maybe have it switch to 64k automatically once a
nfnetlink queue or log socket is opened.