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Hilton Travis said: >> >Most of the rules that you make in the firewall use the same >> >hosts/networks over and over again so it just makes sense to be >> able to >> >predefine them and select them from a dropdown box or something >> instead of >> >manually typing sources and destinations in EVERY rule. >> Isn't that what the address alias feature was meant to deal with? > That is *exactly* what it does! :) Almost, but not exactly. A m0n0wall alias can symbolize a single host or a single network. Not sets of these combined, which is what FW1 does if I remember correctly. And being able to alias port sets would be the next uebercool thing. Don't know if FW1 has that... --Bart |