Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Michael Tüxen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 6, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:
> I think this is confusing to many people and is more likely to have
> unintended consequences. Most users don't consider CLI option
> ordering to have special meaning. Personally, I prefer Stephen's
> suggestion of directly linking the filter to the interface ala -i
> en0:"sctp && host a.b.c.d" if you want to get fancy.
>
> It also means the old style cli args could easliy be grand-fathered in
> (any interface without a specific filter uses the global filter).
I you do decide to go this way, ':' might not be the best delimiter
character to use. It is already used in libpcap interface names and
could cause parsing headaches.
I think some OSes use ':' in vlan interface names? Also ':' is used in
dag interface names to indicate sub streams, e.g. "dag0:2".
Stephen.
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