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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new match (equal)
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:05:25 +0200
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Sven Anders wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This is a new match to check for equal IPs and/or devices.
> Maybe it's of any use to somebody else...
> 
> Please add it patch-o-matic-ng.

I'm not sure this is something we want to take care of ourselves,
but feel free to send me a URL to an external repository to include.

> Comments welcome!

This mainly shows too me that we really want something like
the meta ematch (but also for non-meta data), which would
also obsolete all matches that basically only compare a
single attribute of a packet (or do range matches or
something like that).