Fedora 18 and libipq

[Miika Komu]

HIP does not compile in Fedora 18 due to changes in libipq library:

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.

   Michal

[Miika Komu (miika-iki)]

From the mailing list:

I am mostly working on this on my spare time, so I cannot guarantee any schedules currently. I started working on this on this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~hipl-core/hipl/libnetfilter_queue

The branch is open for hipl-core developers for contributions to migrate the firewall from ipq to netfilter-queue library?

Here's some relevant links:

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/doxygen/group__Queue.html
http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/doxygen/nfqnl__test_8c_source.html
http://linux.die.net/man/3/libipq

[Pupu Toivonen (scolphoy)]

A related link: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.9/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue

This is probably also the reason for removing the library from the package repository.
I'm going to start looking more into this migration into netfilter-queue.