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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: NFQUEUE parallelization
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Eugene Strulyov <eugene.strulyov@gmail.com> wrote:

Please don't top post.

> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> So with regards to parallelization, I need to use multiple queues, correct?

Not necessarily, but it avoids contention for a (single) queue.

> Also, with --queue-balance, will the same (src_ip, dst_ip) pair always
> map to the same queue?

Yes, all saddr,daddr [and replies] get into same queue.