From 0902b469bd25065aa0688c3cee6f11744c817e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luciano Coelho Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:04:00 +0200 Subject: netfilter: xtables: idletimer target implementation 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/