No.  I think you are thinking in the wrong direction if you want rules
from one rulebase to magically expand into four rulebases.  That's not
something I've ever wanted, I'm unsure how you ended down that train
of thought.

I think I started that [explicit] train of thought, simply because no
matter how your GUI presents it, rules will always end up
interface-based at some level - networks are just that way.  A GUI is
just going to provide pretty indirection.

I'm not going to deny that interface-based rulesets are complex - they
are intentionally so, because it's the only way to account for 100% of
all edge cases.  If you want a GUI to hide that complexity for you and
be right 90% of the time, that's up to you.  For 99% of the
population, 90% is more than enough; for the typical audience of power
tools like pfSense, it's a failure.  *But* - if someone wants to offer
and maintain a patch to provide that, more power to them.  I will
absolutely disable it myself (after toying with it and seeing what I'm
missing).  Yes, I pulled those numbers from the same place the flying
monkeys came from.

Even though I've ooohed and aaahed over the niceness of pfSense, I've
honestly been considering going back to a raw iptables firewall/router
again, simply because there are some very specific tweaks and
idiosyncrasies I want that pfSense can't or isn't designed to do.  To
each their own.  Boogity boogity!

RB

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