Volker Tanger's
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| Update/Status of FW1Rules / FWdoc | |
| From: | Volker Tanger |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:56:32 +0100 |
Greetings! This is a collect email to all who have inquired about the status of FW1Rules within the last year. Due to time constraints and change of job focus I had not worked much on FW1Rules. The most asked question was: how is support for the newer versions of CheckPoint (NGX / R66 / R60 / R61)? This usually due to impending changes to your systems and my announcement to freeze development of FW1Rules. Yes, development of FW1Rules is frozen - it supports NG up to R50, most of R55, but flunks on NGX and R60 or higher due to yet again changes of the config file format. Nope, that's not the end of the world, as I've made progress on the FWdoc front (which is supposed to become successor of FW1Rules): FW1r55_to_FWdoc now is debugged and producing proper JSON format which is accepted by all the tools/libraries I tested it against. Thus there is no advantage over FW1Rules - yet. But this way I have made the first step and can test the following steps with realistic data. I am currently wrestling with various template engines to flexibly produce output from FWdoc. As soon as I have that one down, it'll be simple & fast to produce templates for all formats you maybe already know from the FW1Rules templates directory. The step after that will be filters for used/unused objects and other filtering (e.g. to print only rules affecting one customer). That is, when FWdoc will have approximately the same functionality as FW1Rules - only modularized and generalized. And then I'll probably start into a new parser for NGX/R60/R61 configuration files unless an other target/platform is more interesting/promising (for me). ;-) But then I only need to convert to FWdoc format and can fully (re)use all other filtering and output mechanisms. Bye Volker -- Volker Tanger http://www.wyae.de/volker.tanger/ -------------------------------------------------- volker.tanger@wyae.de PGP Fingerprint 378A 7DA7 4F20 C2F3 5BCC 8340 7424 6122 BB83 B8CB