From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipt_recent fixes
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:47:46 +0200
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Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> I've had some ipt_recent rules acting strangely after an uptime of
> about 25 days.  The broken behavior is reproducible in the 5 minutes
> before the first jiffies roll-over right after booting too.
> 
> The cause of the problem is the jiffies comparision which doesn't work
> like intended if one of the last hits was more than LONG_MAX seconds
> ago or if the table of last hits contains empty slots and jiffies
> is > LONG_MAX.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by using get_seconds() instead of
> jiffies.  It also fixes some 64-bit issues.

Thanks, I've added it to my 2.6.13 tree.