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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Eugene Strulyov <eugene.strulyov@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFQUEUE parallelization
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:48:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924204840.GC29479@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKEqNm=2vnqe_fmSTM4G7xWsHkrXP29f_QxLUf7v7_-f5ESyKQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Strulyov <eugene.strulyov@gmail.com> wrote:
> When using multiple queues, is it valid to call nfq_open() multiple
> times in the same process?

Yes.

> When I do that I get negative numbers for
> peer portid. Is this normal?

> $ sudo cat /proc/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue
>   100  27790     0 2 65531     0     0        0  1
>   101  -4585     0 2 65531     0     0        0  1

The proc formatter in nfnetlink_queue uses %d instead of %u.
It was fixed a few months back.

> Also, how exactly does --queue-balance work? All packets seem to be
> directed to one particular queue.

Hash over ipv4/ipv6 source & dst addresses.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24 19:56 NFQUEUE parallelization Eugene Strulyov
2015-09-24 20:48 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-09-24 21:55   ` Eugene Strulyov
2015-09-24 22:18     ` Florian Westphal

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