nftables/SOURCES/0016-doc-nft.8-Mention-wildcard-interface-matching.patch
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From: Phil Sutter <psutter@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:39:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: nft.8: Mention wildcard interface matching
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763652
Upstream Status: nftables commit 03d45ad330a25
commit 03d45ad330a25323610648bb05f550e0fb9d65b2
Author: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Date: Thu Feb 6 12:24:51 2020 +0100
doc: nft.8: Mention wildcard interface matching
Special meaning of asterisk in interface names wasn't described
anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
doc/primary-expression.txt | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/primary-expression.txt b/doc/primary-expression.txt
index 5473d59..a5cab9d 100644
--- a/doc/primary-expression.txt
+++ b/doc/primary-expression.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ add such a rule, it will stop matching if the interface gets renamed and it
will match again in case interface gets deleted and later a new interface
with the same name is created.
+Like with iptables, wildcard matching on interface name prefixes is available for
+*iifname* and *oifname* matches by appending an asterisk (*) character. Note
+however that unlike iptables, nftables does not accept interface names
+consisting of the wildcard character only - users are supposed to just skip
+those always matching expressions. In order to match on literal asterisk
+character, one may escape it using backslash (\).
+
.Meta expression types
[options="header"]
|==================
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