Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching

From: Philip Prindeville <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:10:58 -0800

On 12/21/10 5:14 AM, jamal wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 11:23 -0800, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
>
>> I'll try to implement this approach in the next few days.
> Excellent ;->  Remember, this is general purpose tag, sort
> like socket/route/skb->mark. It is upto the administrator to
> define its use via policy.
>
> cheers,
> jamal

Did that end up going anywhere?

There are a lot of cases where matching on "ppp*" would be handy.