Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-24 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, > eeks... a compressed archie including a binary is not what people on > linux-kernel usually want to see whoops, gues who made a bodge of thier makefile :P > anyway - thanks for your contribution. Why didn't you submit this for > inclusion into netfilter/iptables CVS patch-o-matic

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-24 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, eeks... a compressed archie including a binary is not what people on linux-kernel usually want to see whoops, gues who made a bodge of thier makefile :P anyway - thanks for your contribution. Why didn't you submit this for inclusion into netfilter/iptables CVS patch-o-matic ? We

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-23 Thread Scaramanga
On 2001.01.22 11:58:26 + Scaramanga wrote: > 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 i

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-23 Thread Scaramanga
On 2001.01.22 11:58:26 + Scaramanga wrote: 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

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
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

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, > QUEUE means to pass the packet to userspace (if supported by the kernel). Looking at the code it seemed to do the same thing as the old netlink, but with more complexity, to what end though, i couldnt tell, was only a brief skim. > $ sed -n -e '1874,1876p'

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, QUEUE means to pass the packet to userspace (if supported by the kernel). Looking at the code it seemed to do the same thing as the old netlink, but with more complexity, to what end though, i couldnt tell, was only a brief skim. $ sed -n -e '1874,1876p'

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
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

Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-21 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, Under Linux 2.2.x I used to be able to use ipchains to send packet to a netlink socket so that my userspace application could further analyze the packet data. Since kernel 2.4 and iptables, I have not enjoyed the same functionality, has it been deprecated in favour of a better method, if

Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-21 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, Under Linux 2.2.x I used to be able to use ipchains to send packet to a netlink socket so that my userspace application could further analyze the packet data. Since kernel 2.4 and iptables, I have not enjoyed the same functionality, has it been deprecated in favour of a better method, if