Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_condition

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On Friday 2010-07-16 14:16, Luciano Coelho wrote:
>> >
>> >Yes, of course, but I meant without exporting it to procfs. ;) That
>> >would probably make the code a lot simpler (actually I can't imagine a
>> >simpler match/target than a "variable" match/target ;)
>> 
>> Well, if not procfs, what should influence this anonymous variable?
>> The weather? (No really, that came up at last NFWS. Using a userspace 
>> program, you can write into the procfs file and thus firewall based upon 
>> storm and thunder....)
>
>Heh! :)
>
>What I need is a state variable that is set and read by netfilter
>tables.  The idea is to have a state variable high_throughput that will
>be set to true (high) or false (low) depending on the rateest results.
>This would be used to prevent multiple NFLOG events for the same state
>(say, "HIGH") from being sent to userspace.

We have exactlt that -- the nfmark, accessible via -j MARK.
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