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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Router and Firewall Security Assessment

Excellent tool for parsing router and firewall config files, been meaning to spread the word for a while. From the author -
"nipper is a Network Infrastructure Configuration Parser. nipper takes a network infrastructure device configuration, processes the file and details security-related issues with the configuration together with detailed recommendations. nipper was previous known as CiscoParse. nipper currently supports Cisco switches (IOS), Cisco Routers (IOS), Cisco Firewalls (PIX/ASA/FWSM) and Juniper NetScreen (ScreenOS). Output is in HTML, Latex, XML and Text. Encrypted passwords can be output to a John-the-Ripper file for strength testing."

http://www.titania.co.uk/nipper.php

This tool is mainly for security geeks - YMMV.

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