From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:05:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4C177A89.7060301@trash.net> References: <1276605926-11598-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@medozas.de, Timo Teras To: Luciano Coelho Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:39858 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755152Ab0FONFQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:05:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1276605926-11598-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luciano Coelho wrote: > 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/