loginterface

[justme2]

All,

Any particular reason that the loginterface is set to the LAN instead of WAN? Can this be changed or would it negatively impact something?

Not sure if/where this information may be utilized, however would be nice to make it select-able (perhaps via System -> Advanced -> Firewall & NAT) would be appreciated. No matter which interface its set to (especially if there are more than 2) is going to be biased one way or another. However, leaving it to the user to select the interface enables them to choose 'bias of preference' when reviewing "pfctl -s info". As "LAN" could potentially end up being the least active when multiple interfaces are present.

Thanks!

[NogBadTheBad]

@justme2 Nobody in their right mind would login using the WAN address, they'd set up VPN access if they wanted to access the GUI externally.

You could always create a Vitrual IP and use that internally:-

[22.01-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: ifconfig lo0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
	inet6 2a02:xxxx:xxxx::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 ::172.16.255.2 prefixlen 128
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
	inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff
	inet 172.16.255.2 netmask 0xffffffff
	groups: lo
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[22.01-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: 

[justme2]

@nogbadthebad I think you missed my query - its not "login interface" its the natural pf.conf "set loginterface" component. It defines the interface that pf captures statistical information on. (Statistical data is available via "pfctl -s info")