On 05/19/11 11:43, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:26:59AM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote:
>> To be honest I'm not sure who will do a 'set skip on sis' or
>> 'set skip on em'.
> 
> I would ;-)

You would, however, not have a big problem adding 'group em' to the
corresponding /etc/hostname.em*'s.

>> I think the very important bit is this:
>>> Hmmm, looking further, it seems ordinary rules only match on the
>>> interface name or group as well (in pfi_kif_match()), so maybe
>>> you're just plain right after all. :-)
>>
>> set skip is currently special and works in a not so expected way so it is
>> better to make it work like all other users of interface names and people
>> needing 'set skip on em' should add a 'group em' line to their
>> hostname.em* files.
>>
> 
> "ifconfig em" also works, so i think it would be less special and
> confusing if "set skip on em" would just work without extra config
> magic.

Yes, that's ifconfig, but I believe "pass in on em" will not, and that's
a better comparison. I'd expect "pass|match|block .. on $if" and "set
skip on $if" to behave in the same manner.

/Alexander

> 
> reyk

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