From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Amir Perlman <amirp@oversi.com>
Subject: Accept packets when QUEUE is down
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:38:42 +0300
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Hi,


I have an application that monitors packets being forwarded through the 
machine using a simple rule in the iptables.


Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target   prot opt source               destination
QUEUE      all  --  anywhere             anywhere


When the application is down (or queue is full) all packets will be 
dropped. For a specific application that I have, I need the opposite 
behavior so by default packets will be accepted and not dropped in the 
case the user space application fails to pick them off the queue. Is 
there a way I can configure the kernel in a way that it will accept 
packets when the application fails to clear packets from the QUEUE 
instead of dropping them ?


Thanks in advance


-Amir