Re: about NFQUEUE and nth match

[Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>]

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On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:29 -0400, Frank Abel Cancio Bello wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Some time ago I post a mail in this list 
> ("https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2005-April/059499.html") 
> asking about how manage packets  that was captured with "libipq" and "QUEUE" 
> target in different threads or process.
> 
> Now with the new "NFQUEUE" target I can have many process reading parckets 
> in different queues numbers and using "nth match" to spread equitably over 
> all process the captured packects. 

This look terribly awfull to me ! You better use a single multithreaded
application.

> My questions are:
> 
> 1-What libipq's functions change and how? I look in the manpage in the 
> recent 1.3.3 iptables release and don't find anything.

It will come soon, userspace lib is only available from svn. A compat
libipq library is planned but there's still work to do on it.
SVN is available at : 
	http://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/
Currently the userspace API is work in progress...

BR,
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Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
INL

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