ipfw table expiry.. how to do it..?

[Julian Elischer]

Unfortunately we don't have any timers on table entries, so it's not 
possible to see how long an entry has been in use, or idle.


If I were to ha ve a captive portal, which placed the address of 
'allowed' hosts into a table, we would have no way to time them out 
when they go idle. The omly thing you can do is throw away all the 
entries at some time, and force them to all log in again.

Does anyone have any patches to add "access time" to table entries?


I'm guessing the way it would need to be done now would be to use 
dynamic rules and having the syn packet of every tcp session sent to 
the portal for approval, before being passed back to create the 
dynamic rule.