On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 21:51 +0200, ext Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Monday 2010-05-31 21:12, Luciano Coelho wrote:

quoted

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.

quoted

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)?

The problem is that the userspace always re-adds all the existing rules
before inserting a new one and only later deletes the old rules. :\


-- 
Cheers,
Luca.