Feature request - MAC Allow & Deny

[PM_13]

Not sure if this is the right forum and in case it is not, please point me to the right forum and I will relocate this post.

My home network has few smart devices and ton of IoTs, so had to create separate LANs and the list of MACs I need to add for "Allow" and "Deny" is getting cumbersome to manage in a single textbox.

Is it possible to request a feature to manage MAC Allow and Deny list like the "Aliases" for firewall rules?

Thanks.

[bbrendon]

Until then ...why not use DHCP reservations and IP address rules instead?

[stephenw10]

pfSense feature requests should be added in Redmine in general: https://redmine.pfsense.org/

However, no this is not directly possible. pf, the packet filter used by pfSense, is a layer 3 filter it cannot filter by MAC address. So to do this the firewall would have to set a static lease for the MAC to get a fixed IP to use automatically and that would present a number of challenges.

Steve