Re: [RFC] setting up throughput threshold indications to userspace

[Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>]

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 21:27 +0200, ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2010-07-16 15:10, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >> > There is one problem with this solution, which is that it works in a
> >> > per-connection basis (due to CONNMARK).  This is not exactly what I
> >> > want.  I need to have this on a per-ruleset basis.  For that, I need to
> >> > have a MARK (variable?) which can be set independently of connections or
> >> > packets.  This is similar to the proposed condition match, but what is
> >> > missing there is a way to set the condition with iptables itself,
> >> > without requiring the userspace to change the procfs file.  This could
> >> > probably be achieved with a "CONDITION" target or something similar.
> >> > Any ideas?
> >> 
> >> Sounds useful.
> >
> >Okay, this was the kind of confirmation I wanted before jumping into the
> >implementation. ;) I'll implement this target soon.
> 
> My suggestion to have it combined with xt_condition.

Yes, I also think that is the best idea.  I'll implement a CONDITION
target that will work together with the condition match.  For now I'll
use the non-final version you submitted some time ago.


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Cheers,
Luca.