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    SubjectRe: Firewall netlink question...
    Hi,

    > This is true. This is called ipqmpd or something similar and written by
    > Harald Welte, yes?
    > Your best option is to either check out libipq (can be found in the
    > directory of the same name in the iptables sources), which provides
    > clean C interfaces, or the PERL interface, available from
    > http://www.intercode.com.au/jamesm/

    Yeah, I think that was the one.


    >> What was wrong with the firewall netlink? My re-implementation works great
    >> here. I can't see why anything else would be needed, QUEUE seems twice as
    >> complex. Unless with QUEUE the userspce applications can make decisions on
    >> what to do with the packet? In which case, it would be far too inefficient
    >> for an application like mine, where all i need is to be able to read the
    >> IP datagrams..
    >
    > It can modify and then reinject the packet if it so wishes.

    Excellent, I didn't pick up on that, with the cursory glance at the code i took.

    I wonder, would there be any interest/point in my NETLINK module, which
    provides a backward compatible netlink interface. There are a good few
    apps out there which rely on it, and its nice not to have to run a daemon
    and install a new library, and re-write them just to continue using them...

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