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diff --git a/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man b/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man index b2c90bba..59eddfcb 100644 --- a/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man +++ b/extensions/libxt_NFQUEUE.man @@ -1,12 +1,18 @@ 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. -.TP -\fB\-\-queue\-num\fP \fIvalue\fP -This specifies the QUEUE number to use. Valid queue numbers are 0 to 65535. The default value is 0. -.PP +number. It can only be used with Kernel versions 2.6.14 or later, since it requires the .B nfnetlink_queue -kernel support. +kernel support. The \fBqueue-balance\fP option was added in Linux 2.6.31. +.TP +\fB\-\-queue\-num\fP \fIvalue\fP +This specifies the QUEUE number to use. Valid queue numbers are 0 to 65535. The default value is 0. +.PP +.TP +\fB\-\-queue\-balance\fP \fIvalue\fP\fB:\fP\fIvalue\fP +This specifies a range of queues to use. Packets are then balanced across the given queues. +This is useful for multicore systems: start multiple instances of the userspace program on +queues x, x+1, .. x+n and use "\-\-queue\-balance \fIx\fP\fB:\fP\fIx+n\fP". +Packets belonging to the same connection are put into the same nfqueue. |