On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:45:30AM +0200, Cristian Constantin wrote: > hi! > > in general, how are the integers encoded in the attributes of the > NETLINK_NETFILTER messages: host byte order or network byte order? is > the same byte order supposed to be used by both user space tools and > the kernel? nfnetlink attribute data is exposed in network byte order. > in particular, how is the chain policy attribute encoded by the kernel > when it sends an reply to a NFT_MSG_GETCHAIN request? Through the NFTA_CHAIN_POLICY attribute.