Libipq
libipq is a development library for iptables userspace packet queuing. Libipq provides an API for communicating with ip_queue.
Libipq has been deprecated in favour of the newer libnetfilter_queue in Linux kernel-2.6.14 onwards.
Use in widely used software applications
libipq has been used by some widely deployed applications as their interface to the Linux kernel-space iptables packet filter.
- Snort - Snort is an Intrusion Detection System which runs in user-space and uses libipq to interface with Linux's iptables packet filter.
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External links
- iptables at netfilter.org
- libipq subversion repository
- Linux Man Page
- A quick intro to libipq
- Libipq network simulator example
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