From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luciano Coelho Subject: [PATCH v5] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:21:19 +0300 Message-ID: <1276593679-9576-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, jengelh@medozas.de, Timo Teras To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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/