From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luciano Coelho Subject: [PATCH v4] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:13:34 +0300 Message-ID: <1276265614-669-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:44200 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752992Ab0FKONu (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:13:50 -0400 Received: from esebh105.NOE.Nokia.com (esebh105.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.138.211]) by mgw-mx06.nokia.com (Switch-3.3.3/Switch-3.3.3) with ESMTP id o5BEDOtT025955 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:13:47 +0300 Received: from localhost.localdomain (chilepepper.research.nokia.com [172.21.50.167]) by mgw-da02.ext.nokia.com (Switch-3.3.3/Switch-3.3.3) with ESMTP id o5BEDZr0020752 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:13:35 +0300 Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/