From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netfilter/iptables and network interface names
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:49:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6AFAA1.5080703@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002041743360.21982@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> The kernel also forbids ".".
>
> My first thought was the same, but:
>
> a) Interestingly, it does not prohibit '.'
>
> ip tunnel add foo0.3 mode sit local 1.2.3.4 remote 5.6.7.8
>
> b) The '.' is to be seen as valid as far as xtables.c goes, so
> as to match VLAN interfaces.
Ah of course, its only invalid at the beginning of the name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 12:58 netfilter/iptables and network interface names Thomas Woerner
2010-02-04 14:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-04 14:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 14:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-04 14:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 16:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-04 16:49 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-02-04 18:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-05 10:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-09 11:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-05 10:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-09 15:00 ` Patrick McHardy
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