Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Patrick, > > If I understand your point correctly, you are saying that if a rule is > specified in the command line as below > > iptables -A INPUT -i Embedded_NIC_1 -j ACCEPT, then if the rule is saved > by iptables-save the rule would look like > > iptables -A INPUT -i ethN -j ACCEPT and there is no way to know what the > corresponding Embedded_NIC_1 name is. > > If this is correct, then I agree. I suppose that this concern can be > addressed in one of these ways, if I am not missing > something - > > a) The command line tool I mentioned above (point 2)would tell us the > ethN -> Embedded_NIC_N mapping > b) Or the iptables-save needs to be enhanced to save Embedded_NIC_N > format instead of ethN by making a call to > libnetdevname to get that mapping ( ethN -> Embedded_NIC_1). Yeah, that could be done (but optionally please). What you can't do however is display these two rules iptables ... -i eth0 ... iptables ... -i Embedded_NIC_N ... the same way they were entered since you either map back or you don't. I guess we can live with that though ... -- 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
