Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > personally wouldn't care about as I find it similar to mis-typing an IP > address or RHS to an iifname match. Good point. I think if performance isn't an issue then we can go ahead without this flag. > If transparency of behaviour is a > concern, I'd rather implement GETDEV message type and enable user space > to print the list of currently bound interfaces (though it's partially > redundant, 'nft list hooks' helps there although it does not show which > flowtable/chain "owns" the hook). Do we need new query types for this? nftables could just query via rtnetlink if the device exists or not and then print a hint if its absent.
