Please consider creating a 'passthrough' action in the routing filter subsystem so that a dummy rule can be created solely to attach a comment for documentation purposes, just like the passthrough option in ip/firewall/filter.

Yes, you can probably create a rule that doesn't actually do anything, but that is poor practice as later changes could result in unexpected consequences.

Tim

There is no need for passthrough. It is already passing to the next rule unless explicitly stated to accept or reject.

but what is now the first rule may need to be moved down and no longer will be the first rule... A 'no-op' rule would be a placeholder that could keep the comment in the correct place at the beginning of the rule list.

I know it is not an operational priority, but having comments move to unexpected places can cause confusion when updating code and cause issues.

I assume you mean to create a dummy rule that holds just a comment?

correct... The passthrough action in the ip/firewall/filter rulesets is an excellent 'no-op' that people already recognize... an action verb of noop, comment, or passthrough that does absolutely nothing would be excellent. Right now every action verb has an action.