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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Cade Robinson <cade.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Default netfilter kernel buffer size?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:35:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140616093502.GA8007@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007501cf8685$69b9a460$3d2ced20$@gmail.com>

Hi,

I guess you're refering to libnetfilter_queue.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:29:36PM -0500, Cade Robinson wrote:
> I have been searching around and can't find it so maybe someone can tell me.
> 
> I am looking for the default size of the kernel queue netfilter uses and if
> there is a /proc file to see what the current setting is?
>  
> 
> The story is I have a program that marks packets coming into netfilter.
> 
> On slower devices while a blacklist loads I have run into ENOBUFS error from
> recv.
> 
> I am thinking that if I use nfq_set_queue_maxlen to set this to a higher
> number I won't get the ENOBUFS error but I can't find the default to know
> what may be a larger number.

Please, have a look at the documentation:

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/doxygen/

It refers to this problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-16  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-12 21:29 Default netfilter kernel buffer size? Cade Robinson
2014-06-16  9:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-06-16 13:28   ` Cade Robinson
2014-06-25  7:12     ` SplitIce
2014-06-25 14:12       ` Cade Robinson

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