kill_pids_by_mac

#!/bin/sh

mac=$1

kill_list_of_pids() {
    pids=$1
    # lets kill them - had to use hard `kill -9` to get it working
    # and remember to send to background otherwise only first item is killed
    for pid in $pids; do
        kill -9 $pid > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &
    done    
}

kill_all_process_by_mac(){
    # create at list of pids filter of the ones created by grep:
    kill_list_of_pids $pids    
}

kill_pingflood_device() {
    pids=$(ps | grep "pingflood-*" | grep $mac | grep -v -F 'grep' | awk '{print $1}')
    kill_list_of_pids $pids
}

./logger_bash kill_pids_by_mac "by mac: $mac" debug &

kill_pingflood_device
kill_all_process_by_mac

# not all are killed why ?
# because the "ash" bash version used by open-wrt do not support arrays!
# https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=10824

nb works in bash but not ash because the later one don't have arrays