I think NETLINK is the mechanism communication between userspace and kernel space. ipqueue is an application based on it. in an other words, ipqueue uses NETLINK to deliver packets between user space and kernel space. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian" <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Netfilter Mailinglist" <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 3:09 AM Subject: Confusion about QUEUE and NETLINK > Hi list... > > I'm by now a little confused about QUEUE and NETLINK targets. > Both are for queuing to userspace if I uderstand it correctly. But where > is the diffrence between those two? Are they used for diffrent purpose > or is just the userspace interface diffrent? > > Additionaly i've found two options in kernel .config file which are not > documented under Documentation/Configure.help: > CONFIG_IP_NF_NETLINK > CONFIG_IP_NF_NETLINK_CONNTRACK > What is theire purpose? > > Thanks for any answers. > > Greets > Sebastian. > > >
