Thursday, April 12, 2018

fwBuilder: alternatives? Command-line based?

I've been using the (apparently abandoned) fwBuilder to manage the ACLs on a core switch which supports 50+ VLANs, so it's fairly complex. fwBuilder is pretty and certainly works very well, but it's laborious when adding new VLANs because there's a lot of repetitive point-and-click.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170928231335/http://www.fwbuilder.org:80/4.0/how_it_works.shtml

We have lots of VLANs because each research group gets their own VLAN and we're 'onboarding' a lot of new groups right now. I'm trying to automate this part of the process even more.

Something using only command-line tools, build/make, perhaps?

How do you manage large numbers of ACLs or firewall rules using 'builder' utilities?



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