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| author | Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> | 2004-10-24 07:36:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> | 2004-10-24 07:36:15 +0000 |
| commit | 12cb442ae1f797499606758ca5416c459cea8baa (patch) | |
| tree | 5f7f13a69699b7539dc9035d359822eacaf63cbd /userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 | |
| parent | 8690a688209ab42518b9399a69fe2b45230c4a86 (diff) | |
add wildcard support for interface names
Diffstat (limited to 'userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 b/userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 index 79014b6..b51e4c6 100644 --- a/userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 +++ b/userspace/ebtables2/ebtables.8 @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ rule matches an Ethernet frame, then a processing specification tells what to do with that matching frame. The processing specification is called a 'target'. However, if the frame does not match the current rule in the chain, then the next rule in the chain is examined and so forth. -The user can create new (user-defined) chains which can be used as the 'target' of a rule. +The user can create new (user-defined) chains which can be used as the 'target' +of a rule. User-defined chains are very useful to get better performance +over the linear traversal of the rules. .SS TARGETS A firewall rule specifies criteria for an Ethernet frame and a frame @@ -430,6 +432,8 @@ The interface via which a frame is received (for the chains). The flag .B --in-if is an alias for this option. +If the interface name ends with '+', then +any interface name that begins with this name will match. .TP .BR "--logical-in " "[!] \fIname\fP" The (logical) bridge interface via which a frame is received (for the @@ -437,6 +441,8 @@ The (logical) bridge interface via which a frame is received (for the .BR FORWARD , .BR PREROUTING " and " BROUTING chains). +If the interface name ends with '+', then +any interface name that begins with this name will match. .TP .BR "-o, --out-interface " "[!] \fIname\fP" The interface via which a frame is going to be sent (for the @@ -447,6 +453,8 @@ and chains). The flag .B --out-if is an alias for this option. +If the interface name ends with '+', then +any interface name that begins with this name will match. .TP .BR "--logical-out " "[!] \fIname\fP" The (logical) bridge interface via which a frame is going to be sent (for @@ -456,6 +464,8 @@ the and .B POSTROUTING chains). +If the interface name ends with '+', then +any interface name that begins with this name will match. .TP .BR "-s, --source " "[!] \fIaddress\fP[/\fImask\fP]" The source mac address. Both mask and address are written as 6 hexadecimal |