Re: [PATCH] ipset: Add wildcard support to net,iface

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:06:45PM +0200, Kristian Evensen wrote:
> The net,iface equal functions currently compares the full interface
> names. In several cases, wildcard (or prefix) matching is useful. For
> example, when converting a large iptables rule-set to make use of ipset,
> I was able to significantly reduce the number of set elements by making
> use of wildcard matching.
> 
> Wildcard matching is enabled by adding "wildcard" when adding an element
> to a set. Internally, this causes the IPSET_FLAG_IFACE_WILDCARD-flag to
> be set.  When this flag is set, only the initial part of the interface
> name is used for comparison.
> 
> Wildcard matching is done per element and not per set, as there are many
> cases where mixing wildcard and non-wildcard elements are useful. This
> means that is up to the user to handle (avoid) overlapping interface
> names.

Wrong list. Please send it to netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks!



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