On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 03:05, Stephen Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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).
>

Completely agree to define something which is explicitly linked to which
interface the filter belongs. Ordering parameters is not intuitive.


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".
>

':' is indeed confusing. It is used by Linux to define virtual interfaces
like eth0:1


Regards,
Sebastien Tandel
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