Feature request: Alias Type - URL Table (Ports)

[TheSagest]

I would like to see an Alias type URL Table (Ports), similar to the URL Table (IPs).

Use case.

Changing the port on clients Web app can easily done by changing the Ports file in the URL. Within the frequency time frame, ALL clients firewalls using this Alias URL (Ports) will be updated.

[mimugmail]

I'm also missing this one. Was planning some basic central rule management but without ports it doesn't work.

[fichtner]

This used to exist, but there was an implementational issue that eludes me. 015ae9f

In general, there is no support for pf(4) table for ports. That seemed to be part of the issue...

Need to wait for @AdSchellevis to be back to fill in the details.

[fichtner]

related issue was #2567

[AdSchellevis]

pf doesn’t support tables for ports, since we don’t want to clutter the firewall logic a lot, we dropped support for this.

To be honest, with the api available you really don’t need some obscure fetch construction, for management purposes you can easily push ports and reconfigure.
We shouldn’t try to bring this back, unless at some point in time pf supports tables for ports.

[TheSagest]

After reading through the BSD pd documentation i agree. I will utilise the API. Thanks forbyour time The Sage !!

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[AdSchellevis]

seems safe to close then