On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 15:05 +0200, ext Patrick McHardy wrote: > Luciano Coelho wrote: > > 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/<label> > > > > When the timer expires, the target module sends a sysfs notification to the > > userspace, which can then decide what to do (eg. disconnect to save power). > > > > Applied with a minor compiler warning fix: > > CC [M] net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.o > net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c:255: warning: initialization from > incompatible pointer type > > The struct xt_tgchk_param argument to ->checkentry is const. Oops, missed that one. Thanks for fixing it. And thanks a lot for bearing with a netfilter newbie, providing lots of good comments and generally helping me with this component! I really appreciate it. -- Cheers, Luca. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
