From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laszlo Attila Toth Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Interface groups Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:47:44 +0200 Message-ID: <471488C0.4010003@balabit.hu> References: <1192521703479-git-send-email-panther@balabit.hu> <47147B49.706@snapgear.com> Reply-To: panther@balabit.hu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Philip Craig Return-path: Received: from www.balabit.hu ([212.92.18.33]:56947 "EHLO lists.balabit.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758214AbXJPJrs (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:47:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47147B49.706@snapgear.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Philip Craig =EDrta: > Laszlo Attila Toth wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Different network interfaces can be grouped using the same group ID.= With this >> patch fewer netfilter rules are necessary but it may also be used by= routing. >=20 > This allows an interface to belong to only one group. I expect there= are > situations where you want more. eg you might want a group of all ppt= p > connections, and another group of pptp connections for a subset of us= ers. With masked values it should work with only one group. --=20 Attila