Re: pf ruleset parser re: tag and tagged

Kenneth Gober <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:40:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.pf
Message-ID <CANHrbpfQ5wX9VNtKaoX3cex92XWVC-+fu_X0F=7bDz413dcZdw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:20 PM, S. Donaldson <[email protected]> wrote:
>         It seems that tag references are not dynamically defined [ unless perhaps they are used in authpf scenarios? ]. Would it make sense for the parser to issue a warning if a 'tagged value' references appear but no defining 'tag value' is found in a ruleset?

A warning would make sense.  Definitely not an error though, since the
'tag value' rule might be added later in an anchor.

I wonder how many people have gotten the bright idea of adding 'tagged
xyz' to comment out a rule without disturbing the rule numbering...

-ken