Port alias as host alias (problem/bug) after upgrading from 1.2.3

bellera

Scenario

Many port aliases with EMPTY port description field.
At pfSense 1.2.3 it was impossible to have empty port description fields because WebGUI puts date/time comment for the added port. But, some aliases came from a version before 1.2.3 and description fields where empty.
Upgraded to 2.0.1 loading 1.2.3 config.xml

Result

Aliases with EMPTY port description field are converted to a host alias (?)
The firewall seems to work correctly.
I discovered the problem when I wanted to edit a NAT that used one of the problematic aliases.

Solution

Reedit all problematic aliases. To fill port description field not necessary. WebGUI fill it with date/time comment.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

jimp

Those aliases did not have a <type>field in your config, so the GUI defaulted to whatever was first in the drop-down, Host. The lack of description was just a coincidence.

Those must have been from quite an old version of pfSense, or added in manually without a type tag. Even 1.2 encoded the type=port when saved.

Nothing can be done for those except what you stated, make sure the proper type is selected in the GUI, then save, and it will fix itself.</type>

bellera

Ok, thanks!

Those must have been from quite an old version of pfSense.

Sure. I'm using pfSense for the last 5 years. I did many upgrades !!!

I didn't edit manually any alias.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas