that's an excellent idea if it's not already in, I throw in my hat for a 
feature request.

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> So after using Shorewall for years, I've been taking my first foray into 
> real router devices by playing with a MikroTik Routerboard 750.  Nice 
> little unit, 400MHz Mips CPU, 32MB RAM, 64MB flash.
> 
> I'm trying to wrap my head around writing actual router/firewall rules 
> now, and it's quite interesting. The layout is similar to iptables 
> (RouterOS is, after all, built on top of Linux), but I still have to 
> convert all my existing proxy arp, firewall rules, and zone 
> configurations to RouterOS commands and configuration.
> 
> Which led me to wonder: Is the shorewall compiler output "pluggable," or 
> at least self-contained as to be easily replaceable?  I was thinking 
> along the lines of the rules and config being parsed into a 
> firewall-agnostic datastructure, then I could take that data structure 
> and write out rules in the RouterOS dialect.
> 
> Any chance of that?
> 
> j
> 

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