Hi
On many links regarding user space hanlding of packets I have read
warnings about using libipq, speed wise .... "do this only if u dont want
ultra high speeds and all" ... this speed issue arises because we need to
copy things from kernel space to usr space and vice versa, or is there any
other reason for this. I mean suppose i want to make a process that gets
the packets from the kernel and plays with them and then reinjects them
into the kernel( my process has to be in user space) ... keeping this
constraint in mind (the process that tinkers with the packets has to be in
user space), is there any faster solution than using libipq i.e do these
warnings just mean that using libipq gives slower results when if packet
mangling is done in the kernel space itself .. which is quite obvious, or
do they mean that we can have better ways(faster) than libipq for user
space packet mangling.
thanks
Amit
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