Is ther a way to copy firewall rules from one interface to another

guardian

I just split my LAN into a couple of VLANs, so I've got a whole bunch of firewall rules that need to be changed because the LAN interface isn't really used anymore.

Is there a quick way to extract the rules, so I can use a text editor to change the interface name.
Then how can I reimport the modified rules?

Would be very nice not to have to go one by one with the GUI.

chpalmer

Easy enough-

Copy the rule using the "Copy" icon under "Actions" on the right side of the rule.

Edit the new copied rule and change the "interface" to your new VLAN.

Save.

edit- remove confusing statement/

jahonix

What chpalmer wrote is absolutely correct.
Alternatively you could export your config.xml, edit it with a text editor and reimport it.

Both are valid approaches.

KOM

If you have a lot of rules then the import/export method would be best.

guardian

Thanks all….

A couple of follow up questions...

When you say export to xml, I am assuming that you mean with the GUI Backup function?
Or is there another better way from the shell?

Can someone tell me if it is OK to hack a backup file like this:

just keeping the sections that I want?

That way if I have a starting set of rules that I want, I could just do a restore.

If it's OK to hack the backup. When I restore it, is it OK to restore all, or can do I have to restore NAT and FIREWALL RULES as two separate operations?

Do I have to do a full reboot after loading the rules, or is a the restore enough?

Or can I just run a command from the shell to reload the rules?
I saw this command (Source: https://www.linuxnet.ch/blog/technical-blog-1/post/important-cli-commands-2)

/etc/rc.reload_all

Can /etc/rc.reload_all be used in place of a reboot?

dlogan

@guardian I wish someone would make this feature or a package that could do it. I would use the heck out of it.