On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 20:38 +0200, ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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> On Tuesday 2010-06-01 20:33, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 21:51 +0200, ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Monday 2010-05-31 21:12, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >> >
> >> >I considered this option, but then I didn't find a proper place where to
> >> >include the attribute in sysfs, since I cannot add it as part of the
> >> >interface (eg. /sys/class/net/wlan0/idletimer) as I was doing before.
> >> 
> >> You couldn't have done that before either, because the interface name
> >> in ipt_ip may refer to an interface that does not exist at all times.
> >> 
> >> >The other option would be to make the idletimer as part of the
> >> >xt_IDLETIMER module object in sysfs
> >> >(ie. /sys/module/xt_IDLETIMER/<user_supplied_name>), but it looks out of
> >> >place.
> >> 
> >> I like it. It follows /proc/net/xt_{hashlimit,recent}/<user_supplied_name>.
> >
> >I'm starting to like this more and more too, as my code is getting much
> >smaller ;)
> >
> >One quick question, though.  Do you have any ideas on how I can make
> >sure that the user doesn't supply the same name twice (ie. two rules
> >with the same user_supplied_name)?
> 
> What's so bad about multiple rules being able to reset the timer?

Ahhmm... Nothing! Thank you, I think I'm getting code-blind :)

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Cheers,
Luca.

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