Can you not use an alias in shaper rules?

[poodad]

I'm trying to create a shaper rule to tame Microsoft windows updates (even one PC updating will clobber my DSL connection). I've found a way to more or less get all the IP addresses Microsoft uses as Windows update hosts.

My thinking is that I'd run a script periodically to collect the windows update IPs and use the OPNSense API to add them to an alias. I could then use the alias and build a traffic shaping rule to limit those hosts to a collective 1Mb/sec.

If I try to create a shaper rule using an alias as a source or destination address, I get an error message telling me to enter a valid network address.

Are aliases not usable in shaper rules?

[franco]

No, firewall aliases are for pf firewall, shaper uses ipfw firewall which has a separate feature set.


Cheers,
Franco