Re: libipq and destination IP address

["Khoa Nguyen" <khoa.coffee@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. Actually, the problem is inet_ntoa()
function -- I should have printed out the IP address right away before
calling the function again

Thanks,
Khoa

On 10/19/07, Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 16 octobre 2007 à 10:44 -0400, Khoa Nguyen a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing a small libipq program to extract packet info. I "queued"
> > all packets in the OUTPUT chain. It looks like the packet has the same
> > source and destination packet ( = host interface address). Why is
> > that? Is there a way in libipq to extract the REAL destination
> > address?
>
> First of all: switch to libnetfilter_queue
>
> For your question, libipq sends to userspace the whole content of the
> packet. Thus there is no potential problem of address rewriting. You can
> have a look at the following code extract from NuFW:
> http://docs.nufw.org/doxygen/trunk/html/packetsrv_8c-source.html#l00292
>
> BR,
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