On Monday 03 June 2002 8:59 pm, "J�rgen" 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 interface a packet is coming in on, use the plain name (eg eth1). If you want to 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.
