On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 20:17:04 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Folks, > > sometimes in my router configs I would like to be able to declare a macro > in one location and refer to it across multiple files, > for instance a loopback address might be refered to in BGP, OSPF and IPSEC > and PF configuration, > > is there a way in OpenBSD of configuring aliases / variables like that and > then using them in config files where they would be expanded / understood > by the parser of the config file ... > > or am I asking for too much and just script the changes through in config > generators (which is what I do presently ? > Thanks > > Tom Smyth > > -- > Kindest regards, > Tom Smyth. >
There's an "include" directive for most of the config files, which could in theory reference shared macro definitions. You get to keep the pieces if it breaks though.
