From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luciano Coelho Subject: [PATCH v4] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:01:53 +0300 Message-ID: <1276264913-429-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt , Patrick McHardy , Timo Teras To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:43319 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756436Ab0FKOCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:02:30 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This patch implements an idletimer Xtables target that can be used to identify when interfaces have been idle for a certain period of time. Timers are identified by labels and are created when a rule is set with a new label. The rules also take a timeout value (in seconds) as an option. If more than one rule uses the same timer label, the timer will be restarted whenever any of the rules get a hit. One entry for each timer is created in sysfs. This attribute contains the timer remaining for the timer to expire. The attributes are located under the xt_idletimer class: /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/