[Feature Request] Bulk Copy Firewall Rules To Interface

[ky41083]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like to be able to bulk copy rules between interfaces. I can copy 1 rule at a time to another interface, but this gets tedious when there is a need to copy many rules at a time to a different interface.

Describe the solution you like

I would like a button (Copy selected) added to the Firewall Rules Interface page button bar that can be used after selecting the rules to be copied. This would bring up a form select (or maybe even a multi-select to allow copying to multiple interfaces at once) asking which interface the selected rules would be copied to.

Describe alternatives you considered

Copying 1 rule at a time is an alternative, but is a hard sell in production environments with 4+ WAN interfaces all using the same 20+ rules. Or 20+ VLAN interfaces with 5+ rules in common.

Additional context

[celloza]

Would like to see this too.

[sysxtreme]

Totally necessary!

[aibix0001]

Yes, please! I'm in the process of converting from pfSense to OPNsense and this is sorely missing.

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[chotaire]

This really needs to be implemented, unless companies are willing to hire employees who do nothing other than cloning firewall rules to another interface, one by one.

[Monviech]

Maybe these employees could work smarter and not harder:

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/security-zones.html