Ok, first look at this say I'm in over my head, php isn't as easy for
me to tackle as perl just yet.
The XML for aliases is currently:
<aliases>
<alias>
<name>Netblocks</name>
<address>192.168.0.0/17 10.10.0.0/19 172.168.16.0/24</address>
<descr>Netblocks of questionable value</descr>
</alias>
</aliases>
The php for the aliases interface manually parses the address string
to pick out individual entries. This explains why there aren't
descriptions for each entry in an alias, as that would make the parser
work excessively hard, and would likely be prone to failure without
restricting allowable chars excessively.
<aliases>
<alias>
<name>Netblocks</name>
<address>
<data>192.168.0.0/17</data>
<note>Bob's sandbox</note>
</address>
<address>
<data>10.10.0.0/19</data>
<note>Production LAN</note>
</address>
<address>
<data>172.168.16.0/24</data>
<note></note>
</address>
<descr>Netblocks of questionable value</descr>
</alias>
</aliases>
This bloats out the xml, but gives a clean way of adding descriptions
for individual entries. It would also require tweaking the backend to
get it to pump out configs to pf correctly, something I was hoping to
avoid initially. (And I have yet to stumble across that piece of
code, so I've no idea how much work it will be to manipulate.)
If noone has any objections or other suggestions, this is what I'll
try to impliment.
Joshua Coombs
