Re: bug: nft -n still shows "resolved" values for iif and oif

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>]

On Thu, 2025-09-25 at 18:45 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Sure, only when renamed.  When you remove it raw value is shown
> and it won't match anymore.

Still, when explicitly using --numeric, which one can expect to show
the real values that are matched, and it still shows the string,...
then I guess it's easy for people to wrongly expect that it would
actually match on the name.


> Sure but why do you use iif with a interface that gets removed in
> between?

Well, *I* don't, but given the number of examples floating around that
use iif/oif I guess it's safe to assume that many users might not
realise.

And I'd have argued that the whole point of a --numeric is to show the
real values, that are actually used for matching.
Except that for values where the names are statically defined, I'd have
argued one could use a double -n to make them print the real numbers.


Aynway... not a big deal.


Cheers,
Chris.