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[Max Laier]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 21:33, Bradley W. Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 routers/firewalls setup with carp/pfsync that keep the network
> going with the same pf.conf. Unfortunately the hardware in these boxes is
> slightly different so the NICs have different names (em/sis/dc/etc). I
> have macros defined at the top of pf.conf for the NICs but I still have to
> change the macros each time I copy pf.conf from one box to the other. The
> OpenBSD PF page (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/shortcuts.html) alludes to
> this scenario but I was wondering if there is a way to include more than
> one conf file? It would be nice to have one file contain the macros and
> the other contain all of the rules/queues/etc.
>
> What have others done in this scenario? Should I create a pf.conf template
> file and a script that swaps in the NIC names and copies the files to each
> of the boxes?

You can use pfctl(8)'s -D switch to define the macros on the commandline or 
better in rc.conf(5)::pf_flags  If you need plenty, that's not a perfect 
sollution, I agree.  In that case, I'd go for something like:

cat /etc/pf.inc /etc/pf.conf | pfctl -f-

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