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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: alias
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:37:15 +0100
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On Monday 03 June 2002 8:59 pm, "J=F6rgen" Danielsson wrote:

> Is it inpossible to use a alias in a rule. With that I
> mean refer to a interface called eth1:0.

Correct.

Why do you want to refer to the name ?   If you want to specify the interfa=
ce=20
a packet is coming in on, use the plain name (eg eth1).   If you want to=20
specify the address a packet was going to, use -d aa.bb.cc.dd

I can't think of another reason you should need the interface name.


Antony.