Re: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/23/2010 6:20 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> Also, in 2.0 we have support for nested aliases. What you can do with >>> this is pretty straightforward ofcourse. You can then update 1 specific >>> alias which is part of the parent alias. >>> >>> This should make management a lot easier, the chan

RE: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> Also, in 2.0 we have support for nested aliases. What you can do with >> this is pretty straightforward ofcourse. You can then update 1 specific >> alias which is part of the parent alias. >> >> This should make management a lot easier, the chances of error smaller >> and possibly the number of

Re: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/23/2010 3:12 PM, Seth Mos wrote: > Hi, > > Op 23 aug 2010, om 21:08 heeft Jim Cheetham het volgende geschreven: > >> Perhaps there's another way; what are you doing this for? Instead of >> basing rules on a large set of aliases that you have to update >> regularly, is there some other charac

Re: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Seth Mos
Hi, Op 23 aug 2010, om 21:08 heeft Jim Cheetham het volgende geschreven: > Perhaps there's another way; what are you doing this for? Instead of > basing rules on a large set of aliases that you have to update > regularly, is there some other characteristic you can group your rules > by? (AKA 'des

Re: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Jim Cheetham
Quoting Joseph L. Casale (from 24/08/10 04:23): >> You can export a configuration file to see the file structure, build >> a configuration backup that has the aliases in it based on the sample, >> and then restore your "backup". That's what we did. > > That’s a good idea, but the lists need updat

RE: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You can export a configuration file to see the file structure, build >a configuration backup that has the aliases in it based on the sample, >and then restore your "backup".  That's what we did. That’s a good idea, but the lists need updating and something scriptable would be easier so I could do

Re: [pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Moshe Katz
You can export a configuration file to see the file structure, build a configuration backup that has the aliases in it based on the sample, and then restore your "backup". That's what we did. -- Moshe Katz KatzNet Computers -- mo...@ymkatz.net -- +1(301)867-3732 On

[pfSense Support] Large Aliases

2010-08-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there any undocumented tricks to creating large aliases other than by hand? I have some I need to create with maybe 100 or more small networks. Can I import the list at the cli somehow and have the gui acknowledge them? Thanks! jlc --