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

[Julian Elischer]

On 11/09/2016 8:03 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have any patches to add "access time" to table entries?
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> 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 session sent to
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no takers?