nfqueue/ipq difference
Patrick McHardy
kaber at trash.net
Fri Oct 20 12:02:50 CEST 2006
robert wrote:
> As I was migrating to NFQUEUE, I noticed a small difference. If you
> are polling on an IPQ filedescriptor, then the error bit is set if the
> queue runs out of buffer space. In NFQUEUE, the error bit is never
> set, but after doing a read, there is an error. This error bit is
> relatively important and in most applications would want to handle a
> read since both IPQ and NFQUEUE will not queue any new packets until
> the entire buffer is flushed. (at least, this is the behavior that I
> am seeing).
>
> If anyone is interested, i could post two small test programs that
> illustrate this behavior. (not sure if this would be considered a bug).
Please, I can not see any difference between ipq and nfnetlink_queue.
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