LAN-side subnets?

[dleifelohcs]

I'm putting this here since it's "installation" in the sense that I'm still working on installing it. That and I don't know where else it belongs.

pfSense's LAN is 10.200.0.0 we'll say. That's an internal subnet for all of our Content Filtration, etc.
Actual clients reside on 10.100.0.0/16, 10.105.0.0/24, 10.110.0.0/24, 10.115.0.0/24, 10.120.0.0/24, 10.125.0.0/24, 10.130.0.0/24. There's a Cisco router that passes all outbound traffic to the pfSense box.
(So, 10.100.0.0 -> 10.201.0.0 -> WAN )

I quickly discovered that pfSense won't forward traffic from 10.100.0.0 automatically, since IT's LAN is on 10.200.0.0. So I created a rule that allowed 10.100.0.0 to WAN. Fine, that worked.

Is this really the best way to do this? Create an outgoing rule for EACH subnet? What if I need to create a rule to deny something from outgoing? Do I need to create one for each subnet?

[hoba]

Create a subnets alias at firewall>aliases likel "localsubs". Add all your local subnets there. Then edit the default lan to any rule at firewall>rules, lan tab. Change source LAN-subnet to "single host or alias " and "localsubs". Now you have a single rule that will allow all your internal subnets out. If you need to block single IPs or ports or destinations add a bloc rule on top of this rule. First match wins. You also can use aliases here for a group of hosts or ports to sum up mulitple rules in one rule.