Is it possible to use instance name directly in "network forward"?

If I understand correctly, when do “network forward” to a container/virtual-machine, it needs to pass the instance’s internal IP.

Is it possible to do something like:

incus network forward create incusbr0 {HostIP} the-instance-name

?

Not at the moment, no.

It shouldn’t be impossible to add for instances that have a fixed IP (ipv4.address/ipv6.address), but the logic will get very complex as we need to also go and update the forward whenever the user edits those properties then.