Re: No meta ibrindex/obrindex, only meta ibrname/obrname

Avinash Duduskar <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:13:32 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Doesn't look like anyone's asked for this in the 12+ years since these
keys landed (2014), nice find.

Every meta key that identifies a specific interface comes in a
name/index pair: iif/iifname, oif/oifname, sdif/sdifname.
The bridge-master keys are the only ones that are name-only.

Closing that API asymmetry could be a legit reason to add it, if
someone's keen to write it.

On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 20:34 -0500, Corwyn Briggs wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Is this an intentional difference or rather just something which was
> never implemented?
> I wish I could offer a fix, but I haven't the faintest idea how a
> person would go about implementing one, so I appreciate any advice on
> this issue.
> Thank you all!