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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Swapnil Nagle <swapsn@rediffmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Adding a rule with invalid interface name
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:42:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916154215.GA17503@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41498850.9000000@rediffmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:04:24PM +0530, Swapnil Nagle wrote:
> 
> iptables lets me add a rule with invalid interface name :
> 
> # iptables -A FORWARD -i abc -o xyz -j ACCEPT

How is iptables supposed to know that you won't at some point down
the line bring up an interface called 'abc' or 'xyz'?  

Nothing invalid about iptables allowing you to add this rule...

Phil

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 12:34 Adding a rule with invalid interface name Swapnil Nagle
2004-09-16 15:42 ` Phil Oester [this message]

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