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32 character limit in firewall aliases. Can it be increased?
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nyctophilia:
As this is my very first post:
Hello everyone,
and thanks to the devs for their awesome work!
I have one small question, as I couldn't find any answer by googling. Is there any reason why aliases are limited to 32 characters in total? Could it be increased or will it break code/performance?
We have a use-case which would require more than 32 chars in the alias name, probably double (64) for good measure.
Thank you in advance!
franco:
Hi there,
Currently, it's pinned to 32 characters in the OS:
https://github.com/opnsense/src/blob/17a61782d3b8d86464d5bdc38483ee8a0ac6a4f9/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.h#L185
I don't know the implications of increasing it and would hope that FreeBSD pioneers this change if the need is big enough. Feel free to open a ticket here:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/
Kristof will probably respond with a more qualified answer than I can.
Cheers,
Franco
nyctophilia:
Hi Franco,
thanks for the pointer, I opened a ticket and will report back if there are any news on this matter!
Greetings
Valentino
0xDEADC0DE:
Here is the link to the bugtracker
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257270
The bug was closed because it cannot be changed.
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