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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_time: add support to ignore day transition
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917110229.GB9909@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209171230550.21480@nerf07.vanv.qr>

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
> >Currently, if you want to do something like:
> >"match Monday, starting 23:00, for two hours"
> >You need two rules, one for Mon 23:00 to 0:00 and one for Tue 0:00-1:00.
> >The rule
> >--weekdays Mo --timestart 23:00  --timestop 01:00
> >looks correct, but it will first match on monday from midnight to 1 a.m.
> >and then again for another hour from 23:00 onwards.
> 
> I think stop < start should be outright rejected in the user interface 
> because of its confusion potential. Given what it currently does, it 
> does not seem like it was ever desired.

No, it works fine the way it is; in fact, the kernel
explicitly tests for stop < start to make things work.

Only when --weekdays is used with a stop < start rule
the behaviour gets weird.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17 10:23 [PATCH] libxt_time: add support to ignore day transition Florian Westphal
2012-09-17 10:23 ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_time: " Florian Westphal
2012-09-17 10:32   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-17 11:02     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2012-09-24 12:35   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-09-24 12:40 ` [PATCH] libxt_time: " Pablo Neira Ayuso

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