I want to write a filter in userspace. Comparing dns lookups to a blacklist and possibly other things. Questions: My strong impression is to use libipq and target QUEUE. Correct? Netlink sockets is deprecated? or is libipq like a wrapper? It seems that I need a current iptables to do this, but my 2.4.18 kernel is fine, this is a little confusing. My 2.4.18 kernel .config doesn't seem to have CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE and I can't seem to brute force it in. Can't get ip_queue.o to build. ?? Any one heard of a Python libipq module? I've seen the Perl version but I have Python on my very tiny router and don't want to add Perl. If not I'll code in C. Thanks