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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 02/12] net: flow_table: add flow, delete flow
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:50:56 +0000
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On 01/14/15 at 06:55am, John Fastabend wrote:
> If one of the actions supported by the device is forward_to_queue() or
> forward_to_socket() we can use the API to steer potentially interesting
> packets to a user space application for processing.

+1

Ideally using NFQUEUE so we can leverage existing infrastructure.