From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Davis Subject: Re: iptables - how to create a rule that expires automatically Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:42:12 +0000 Message-ID: <499D99F4.2010400@colsmemory.co.uk> References: <499D9292.902@colsmemory.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ivan Petrushev Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Thanks Ivan, I was hoping to be able to do this directly using a rule without writing a script / using cron but looks like that's what I'm going to have to do. Colin. Ivan Petrushev wrote: > I'm not sure if that can be done with the netfilter itself. > You could always get a script into crontab to check if the rule is > matched (iptables ... -L -n -v will show you number of packets matched > by the rule) and set up some sort of a timer. > > Ivan > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Colin Davis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Not sure if this is possible. I wish to create a rule that once created will >> automatically expire (and be removed) after say 10 minutes. >> >> Please >> >> Many thanks, >> Colin. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >>