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From: Brennan Paciorek <bpaciore@redhat.com>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Brennan Paciorek <bpaciore@redhat.com>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Subject: [nft PATCH] doc: document add chain device parameter
Date: Wed,  2 Aug 2023 14:29:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230802182947.24789-1-bpaciore@redhat.com> (raw)

nft add chain lacked documentation of its optional device parameter,
specifically what values the parameter accepted, what it did and
when to use it.

Closes: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093
Suggested-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Brennan Paciorek <bpaciore@redhat.com>
---
 doc/nft.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/nft.txt b/doc/nft.txt
index fe123d04..7e47ca39 100644
--- a/doc/nft.txt
+++ b/doc/nft.txt
@@ -434,6 +434,11 @@ further quirks worth noticing:
   *prerouting*, *input*, *forward*, *output*, *postrouting* and this *ingress*
   hook.
 
+The *device* parameter accepts a network interface name as a string, and is
+required when adding a base chain that filters traffic on the ingress or
+egress hooks. Any ingress or egress chains will only filter traffic from the
+interface specified in the *device* parameter.
+
 The *priority* parameter accepts a signed integer value or a standard priority
 name which specifies the order in which chains with the same *hook* value are
 traversed. The ordering is ascending, i.e. lower priority values have precedence
-- 
2.41.0


             reply	other threads:[~2023-08-02 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-02 18:29 Brennan Paciorek [this message]
2023-08-03  7:45 ` [nft PATCH] doc: document add chain device parameter Pablo Neira Ayuso

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