Re: [IPCop-devel] Correct way to transfer V1.4 rules to V2.0?

> 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.
> 

I've a few to do as well, but I'll have a look at writing a conversion script 
if you can wait a day or two.


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