From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kaber@trash.net Subject: [PATCH 17/17] netfilter: xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:38:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1276616323-20880-18-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> References: <1276616323-20880-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: davem@davemloft.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1276616323-20880-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org From: Luciano Coelho 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/