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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:06:03 +0200
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=46rom: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Friday 10 December 2010, 19:42:39

> Le vendredi 10 d=E9cembre 2010 =E0 19:32 +0200, Octavian Purdila a =E9=
crit :
> > Would allowing escaping it fix the issue? Like:
> >=20
> > ip link add link bond0 "vlan\*" txqueuelen 100 type vlan id 999
>=20
> Well, same compat problem ;)
>=20
> $ ip link add link bond0 "vlan\*199" type vlan id 199
> $ ifconfig "vlan\*199"

:) Then use a special dev keyword like dev* ?

$ ip link set dev* dummy set

Or use a new flag to allow expansion?

$ ip -e link set dev dummy* set


Thanks,
tavi