Re: [PATCH 2/3] x_tables: Use also dev->ifalias for interface matching

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Jan 12 2015 - 11:33:02 EST



On Monday 2015-01-12 17:04, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>iptables should have used ifindex [for interface matching],
>it[']s sad we allowed the substring match in first place.

How would you solve interface name wildcards with ifindices?
(They come in handy if you have something like lots of tun+/veth+
interfaces from openvpn/lxc.)
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