From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luciano Coelho Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:18:54 +0300 Message-ID: <1276607934.1580.58.camel@powerslave> References: <1276605926-11598-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> <4C177A89.7060301@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "jengelh@medozas.de" , Timo Teras To: ext Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:48842 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756630Ab0FONZc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:25:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C177A89.7060301@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 15:05 +0200, ext Patrick McHardy wrote: > 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/