Re: route-to, interfaces and pfsync

On 2022-06-13 14:33, Kristof Provost wrote:

>> This brings us to OpenBSD. They have decided to drop the interface
>> from route-to targets
>> (https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/5812a4ad62ca07807ac0bc59f22eb8813e6069bc
>> <https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/5812a4ad62ca07807ac0bc59f22eb8813e6069bc>).
>> How about we do the same? If porting this change from OpenBSD has a
>> chance of getting aproved and merged, I'd be willing to work on it.
> 
> 
> That’s a breaking syntax change, at there’s at least one major 
> FreeBSD/pf user that relies heavily on route-to (i.e. pfSense). So 
> something that’d break that is not going to be easy.
> 
> However, (without having looked at the patch in great detail) we might 
> be able to support both the old style |route-to (epair0a 1.2.3.4)| and a 
> new |route-to (1.2.3.4)| or even |route-to (@1.2.3.4)| or something if 
> that disambiguates better. If we can ensure the old style keeps working 
> (with any limitations it currently has), which also supporting the new 
> style that’d give everyone a chance to migrate. We could then remove the 
> old style in say 15.0.

How about I make the parser accept the syntax with the interface and 
without it and then ignore the interface, and the pf C code will be all 
done without the interface? Would that have a chance of being accepted 
into 14.0?

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