The spelling-challenged opensource project capirca from google is a stripped down version of their own ACL management code (python, apparently).
It gives a simple way to describe your firewall policy and then apply anywhere.
They have ACL modules for Cisco, Juniper and iptables in the bundle but also mention force10 and some more. Obviously it’s extensible for any device you want.
They kinda pick up where fwbuilder with it’s lack of all-over central (or group-specific) policies left off.
For me who definitely has “QoS-all-the-way-through” on his plans, this is so great I can hardly put it. I would’ve had to hack something my on own, it would not have been better, and have cost time, obviously.
The main site is here: http://code.google.com/p/capirca/downloads/list
Kinda funny the presentation there calls Facebook’s server farm size a “rounding error” 😉
Also check out this introduction http://aconaway.com/2010/04/10/a-quick-intro-to-googles-capirca/
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Capirca has gotten into a bad state and is not well managed. If you are interested, check out https://github.com/aerleon/aerleon for a fork that is maintained.
Hey,
thank you for the pointer – good to know there’s a maintained replacement now. I respect the google people who worked on it for so long, it seems it was always an uphill battle for them to keep the oss project alive independent of their internal interests and use cases.
didn’t deeply look at aerleon so far, but i can see it is more active than capirca ever was. It would be great if it finally gains widespread use, maybe one needs to add some “microsegmentation” buzzwords 😉