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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2013-07-12 23:14:27 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2013-08-06 18:44:11 +0200
commit54fccb1be58fbbabb6bfff4b136470a19e2ef48c (patch)
tree52a3d8edd434877fea00e7f94d9436a61db4836a /extensions
parentf0d75111d788b2424f543ff2246caa2dc980aa93 (diff)
doc: add libnetfilter_queue pointer to libxt_NFQUEUE.man
... and remove the QUEUE snippets from ip(6)tables man page, the queue target was replaced by nfqueue years ago. Fix up a couple of needless differences in ip(6)tables.8, too. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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-rw-r--r--extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man b/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man
index 7a991291..1bfb7b84 100644
--- a/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man
+++ b/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-This target is an extension of the QUEUE target. As opposed to QUEUE, it allows
-you to put a packet into any specific queue, identified by its 16-bit queue
-number.
-It can only be used with Kernel versions 2.6.14 or later, since it requires
-the
+This target passes the packet to userspace using the
+\fBnfnetlink_queue\fP handler. The packet is put into the queue
+identified by its 16-bit queue number. Userspace can inspect
+and modify the packet if desired. Userspace must then drop or
+reinject the packet into the kernel. Please see libnetfilter_queue
+for details.
.B
nfnetlink_queue
-kernel support. The \fBqueue-balance\fP option was added in Linux 2.6.31,
+was added in Linux 2.6.14. The \fBqueue-balance\fP option was added in Linux 2.6.31,
\fBqueue-bypass\fP in 2.6.39.
.TP
\fB\-\-queue\-num\fP \fIvalue\fP