Re: Correct way to transfer V1.4 rules to V2.0?

John Edwards <john-C/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:33:29AM +0100, Steve wrote:
> 
> Cant be that hard to print them and re enter ?

May be not hard, but time consuming, boring, and very likely to
introduce mistakes.

I've had firewalls with over 50 rules for port forwarding (about
10 port forwards for 5+ machines). If you then include access
restrictions for each of those you easily get 100s per firewall.

We look after about 15 firewalls, so that is potentially 1000s of
rules to enter. Entering those manually will mean mistakes. 

Dealing with boring and time consuming data transformation is an
excellant job for a computer. A simple sed or awk script should
able to transform a comma separated file format.


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