libipq and Fedora 18

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/13/2013 08:45 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:07:14AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I am working with the HIPL project: http://infrahip.net/ and I am
>> the creator of the HIP protocol (see RFC 5201 and ID 5201-bis).
>>
>> On past Fedora releases, HIPL has relied on libipq, but the package
>> manager cannot find this in F18.
> That is what you can find, for example, in Wikipedia: "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."
>
> See also
> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/index.html
>
> If you will try:
>
>     yum provides '*/libnetfilter_queue.so*'
>
> then packages libnetfilter_queue-1.0.2-1.fc18 and
> libnetfilter_queue-devel-1.0.2-1.fc18 will show up.

Thanks!  I will forward this information to the packager and developers.