From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to drop an idle connection with iptables?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:37:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jaipdd$irr$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECCCF70.1080701@gmail.com>
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On 11-11-23 05:48 AM, lu zhongda wrote:
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> I felt the scenario you described is not really what I want to know.
Probably because your request was unclear.
> I want to know if there is any way to set up iptables so
> that it will drop a connection after that connection has been idle
> for a specified period of time?
Define "drop", "connection" and "idle". And why do you feel you need to
"drop" them?
> I have tried connection tracking function of iptables, however it
> seems not work for my case.
Please explain why it doesn't. What are you trying to achieve exactly?
Perhaps a real-world use-case might help us understand.
b.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-23 10:48 How to drop an idle connection with iptables? lu zhongda
2011-11-23 12:37 ` Brian J. Murrell [this message]
2011-11-24 9:46 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-24 11:30 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-11-25 5:37 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 11:16 ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-11-25 13:45 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 14:20 ` Nikolay Kichukov
2011-11-26 11:32 ` lu zhongda
2011-12-01 10:22 ` Anatoly Muliarski
2011-12-01 10:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-11-25 20:01 ` John Haxby
2011-11-26 11:30 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 1:14 ` Gao feng
2011-11-25 3:40 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 3:41 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 3:59 ` lu zhongda
2011-11-25 5:39 ` Gao feng
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2011-11-22 12:22 陆仲达
2011-11-23 3:27 ` Lloyd Standish
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