(cisco, or any) acl *reducers* out there?

[michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)]

> I'm wondering if anyone has written a parser which can construct rule-trees and get rid of the cruft, unusable, order-misorder and other issues in a large ACL pool?
>   

fwbuilder (www.fwbuilder.org) can import Cisco ACLs and impart a
checkpoint-esque rule tree for you to look at, change, and test .. then
recompile back into ACL syntax. Also works on IPtables, PF, and a few
other things.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University