On Tue, 2007-16-10 at 13:47 +0200, Laszlo Attila Toth wrote: > Hm, the main problem (for me) is that it requires more then one value > per net device and it should be limited. But if I say it is 5 for > instance, anyone can say it is not enough for him. Yes, those pesky humans, you give them an inch and they want a mile ;-> I think 32 for example is better than 1. So if you use a u32 variable doesnt pollute the netdevice that much - and used as a bitmap, then setting any of the 32 bits implies the device is in that group. This of course limits the group ids to be (1..32). Your mileage may vary. > ip link set ppp0 group 10 > also if "ip link set..." works for multiple interfaces it is already > done. If it is not, it will affect positively all other settings :) nice. The part that is not very useful today with ifconfig or ip link ls is i have only two choices: Either i ask for all devices or for one; i cant ask for something in the middle. If i can group them together then i can solve that problem sith some user space plumbing (which avoids 10K netlink messages). "get ppp*" may actually be a totally separate call which also traverses the list in the kernel and just returns the matching devices. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
