Methods for managing large customer/internal mgmt ACLs?

Thu Jan 17 14:15:27 UTC 2002

On Thursday 17 January 2002, at 5 h 58, 
Roland Dobbins <mordant at gothik.org> wrote:

> I'd be grateful for insight into what tools/methods are being used out
> there for managing and deploying large numbers of large customer and/or
> internal management ACLs, specfically for Cisco devices.  Is vi/RCS/tftp
> the most common toolset, or is anyone using the Cisco ACLM 

May be many people are also using a custom Perl script to perform tasks 
similar to ACLM?

In that case, a company which is member of Gitoyen will release RSN :-) under 
the free software licence GPL a tool very similar to ACLM but without the 
fancy and heavy user interface (just text files you edit with vi and store 
into CVS). Also, unlike ACLM, it works not only with IOS' ACLs but also with 
Ipfilter (FreeBSD), Netfilter (Linux >= 2.4), etc.

Stay tuned :-)