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
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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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