Re: about NFQUEUE and nth match

["Frank Abel Cancio Bello" <FRANKABEL@tesla.cujae.edu.cu>]

Thanks again eric

Can you send me or point me to some code that you are tested?

Salute
Frank

> Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 19:18 -0400, Frank Abel Cancio Bello a écrit :
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Due to libipq isn't thread-safe (see one problem in 
> >
> 
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Platforms/Linux_Programmi
> ng/Q_20766491.html) 
> > and I'm not a netfilter hacker I send the mail 
> > (https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2005-April/059499.html) 
but 
> > anybody reply. 
> > The problem is that I need to know if is safe make a multithreaded 
> > application with libipq. Now I have the same questions that that some 
time 
> > ago:
> 
> >From my experience, I've tested with two threads. One receiving packets
> the other sending packets back to kernel. It seems to work fine, even
> under heavy load. I've never tried multiple sending and receiving
> threads.
> But you can always have something like that by using messages between
> the threads.
> 
> BR,
> -- 
> Eric Leblond 
> 
> 
>