ENUM NFT_QUEUE_ATTRIBUTES(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

enum nft_queue_attributes — bestie, this is the netlink attribute enum for the nf_tables queue expression, i.e. the little vocabulary the kernel and userspace use to talk about queueing packets. That's the whole vibe 💅

(Also hi, this is the enum nft_queue_attributes(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, come sit with me.)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum nft_queue_attributes {
    NFTA_QUEUE_UNSPEC ,
    NFTA_QUEUE_NUM ,
    NFTA_QUEUE_TOTAL ,
    NFTA_QUEUE_FLAGS ,
    NFTA_QUEUE_SREG_QNUM ,
    __NFTA_QUEUE_MAX

};

Look at her. Six members, all iconic, no filler 🌸

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🎀 Constants 🎀

okay so these are the actual constants, one by one, nothing skipped, I promise 🫶

• NFTA_QUEUE_UNSPEC — the manpage itself just says -- undescribed -- 😭 so that's literally all we know. She's mysterious. She's giving unspecified. We respect her privacy 💀
• NFTA_QUEUE_NUM — the netlink queue to send messages to. Type is NLA_U16. That's the queue you're aiming at 📬
• NFTA_QUEUE_TOTAL — the number of queues to load balance packets on. Type is NLA_U16. Spread those packets out, queen 👑
• NFTA_QUEUE_FLAGS — various flags. Type is NLA_U16. Yes, "various", that's the documentation, don't come for me 🙈
• NFTA_QUEUE_SREG_QNUM — source register of the queue number. Type is NLA_U32: nft_registers — so the queue number itself can live in a register, cute ✨
• __NFTA_QUEUE_MAX — also -- undescribed -- in the original, no cap. She's the internal max marker and the manpage simply did not elaborate 🧚

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

First up, the source of truth: Kernel file ./include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h

Then the whole extended friend group — literally every one of these, in order, because I would never do them dirty like that 💜

• enum nft_registers(9)
• enum nft_verdicts(9)
• enum nf_tables_msg_types(9)
• enum nft_list_attributes(9)
• enum nft_hook_attributes(9)
• enum nft_table_flags(9)
• enum nft_table_attributes(9)
• enum nft_chain_attributes(9)
• enum nft_rule_attributes(9)
• enum nft_rule_compat_flags(9)
• enum nft_rule_compat_attributes(9)
• enum nft_set_flags(9)
• enum nft_set_policies(9)
• enum nft_set_desc_attributes(9)
• enum nft_set_field_attributes(9)
• enum nft_set_attributes(9)
• enum nft_set_elem_flags(9)
• enum nft_set_elem_attributes(9)
• enum nft_set_elem_list_attributes(9)
• enum nft_data_types(9)
• enum nft_data_attributes(9)
• enum nft_verdict_attributes(9)
• enum nft_expr_attributes(9)
• enum nft_immediate_attributes(9)
• enum nft_bitwise_ops(9)
• enum nft_bitwise_attributes(9)
• enum nft_byteorder_ops(9)
• enum nft_byteorder_attributes(9)
• enum nft_cmp_ops(9)
• enum nft_cmp_attributes(9)
• enum nft_range_ops(9)
• enum nft_range_attributes(9)
• enum nft_lookup_attributes(9)
• enum nft_dynset_attributes(9)
• enum nft_payload_bases(9)
• enum nft_payload_csum_types(9)
• enum nft_payload_attributes(9)
• enum nft_exthdr_op(9)
• enum nft_exthdr_attributes(9)
• enum nft_meta_keys(9)
• enum nft_rt_keys(9)
• enum nft_hash_types(9)
• enum nft_hash_attributes(9)
• enum nft_meta_attributes(9)
• enum nft_rt_attributes(9)
• enum nft_socket_attributes(9)
• enum nft_ct_keys(9)
• enum nft_ct_attributes(9)
• enum nft_offload_attributes(9)
• enum nft_limit_attributes(9)
• enum nft_connlimit_attributes(9)
• enum nft_counter_attributes(9)
• enum nft_last_attributes(9)
• enum nft_log_attributes(9)
• enum nft_log_level(9)
• enum nft_quota_attributes(9)
• enum nft_secmark_attributes(9)
• enum nft_reject_types(9)
• enum nft_reject_inet_code(9)
• enum nft_reject_attributes(9)
• enum nft_nat_types(9)
• enum nft_nat_attributes(9)
• enum nft_tproxy_attributes(9)
• enum nft_masq_attributes(9)
• enum nft_redir_attributes(9)
• enum nft_dup_attributes(9)
• enum nft_fwd_attributes(9)
• enum nft_objref_attributes(9)
• enum nft_gen_attributes(9)
• enum nft_object_attributes(9)
• enum nft_flowtable_flags(9)
• enum nft_flowtable_attributes(9)
• enum nft_flowtable_hook_attributes(9)
• enum nft_osf_attributes(9)
• enum nft_synproxy_attributes(9)
• enum nft_devices_attributes(9)
• enum nft_trace_attributes(9)
• enum nft_ng_attributes(9)

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fr fr though: if you're touching nf_tables netlink code, read the header file first. The manpage is the ✨aesthetic✨ version, the header is the receipts.

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and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨ This cutie lives at ./include/uapi/linux/netfilter, it's dated October 2026, and it ships with the Kernel API Manual as enum nft_queue_attributes(9). mwah 🎀🦋🌸