[Click] Timers

[Martin Hoffmann]

Hello,

I am working on Multicast elements and have a question regarding timers.

PIM-SM (RFC2362) specifies a Neighbor-Timer (a neighbor is another PIM 
capable router). A Neighbor-Timer for each neighbor is used to time out 
the neighbor state.

Is there a way to initialize Click timers dynamically? At startup the 
router does not know how many neighbors there will be.

I thought about using gettimeofday() and storing a time value in the 
vector containing the neighbors. A timer that has been initialized at 
router startup could periodically check the vector if some timers 
expired and take out appropriate actions.

I'm not sure if this is a nice way to solve my problem. Any other ideas 
are highly appreciated.

Regards,
Martin