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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxt_time: add support to ignore day transition
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:40:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120924124017.GA30792@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347877389-15728-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Florian Westphal 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.
> 
> This permits userspace to explicitly ignore the day transition and
> match for a single, continuous time period instead.

Applied to the iptables-linux-3.7 branch.

Will merge this to master once linux-3.7-rc1 is released.

Thanks Florian.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 12:40 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
2012-09-24 12:35   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-09-24 12:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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