Server Fault Asked by user2798081 on November 10, 2021
I’ve restricted the source IP of many rules to some alias, say Trusted_Sources.
Now, for some reason, I want to open all these rules to the world without manually modifying each individual rule.
How can I modify the Trusted_Sources alias to include all IP’s?
As a workaround, I defined a new alias containing 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255 and added it to Trusted_Sources, and it did worked. But, I’m not sure about its efficiency.
I’ve used 0.0.0.0/0 in some other devices, but pfsense doesn’t seem to support that.
Thanks.
The "efficiency", whatever that means in this context, would be the same.
The range 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255 contains all (possible) adresses in the ipv4 adress space.
The network 0.0.0.0/0 contains all adresses within this network, which happens to be the whole ipv4 adress space, too.
pfsense, like some other routers, like to see it as CIDR notation (255.255.255.255/0) - just like the default route - but in the end this doesn't matter. The rule will be the same as it is parsed binary (internally), therefore there is virtually no difference.
Answered by bjoster on November 10, 2021
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