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    How many rules you have in your pfsense?

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    • ?
      Guest
      last edited by

      How many rules you have, and when did/do you think it´s becomming unmanagble rulewise

      on each vlan/interface or alltogether

      I just have like 8 rules on the wan interface and a few on the rest of vlans/nics so there are bound to be a few with more ;)

      /f

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        hoba
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        About 100 rules on my office firewall with 9 Interfaces/Vlans (3WANs, DMZ, CP, LANs, IPSEC-tunnels, PPTP Users, CARP-Sync, …) making heavily use of aliases. Still manageable. Aliases help a lot  ;)

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        • GruensFroeschliG
          GruensFroeschli
          last edited by

          Was about to write the same.
          Aliases make managing rules a lot easier.

          Also comments that actually mean something ;)

          We do what we must, because we can.

          Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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            hoba
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            Aliases ar not only making things easier or mkore readable, they also help to keep the amount of rules pretty low when using ports aliases in combination with hosts- or networkaliases.

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