On Tuesday 2013-10-15 16:23, Florian Westphal wrote: > Caveats: > - I am not convinced '+' is a good idea -- it is ambiguous since > 'foo+' is a legal interface name. > Maybe we should use 'foo/' (Linux forbids / in interface names) instead? While there are almost no limitations on the interface name, there is a limit to what characters are _useful_ to have in an interface name. Picking foo+ was a sensible decision back then, and continues to be, unless you want to go for the optically different 'foo*'. -- 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