https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/capirca/ Recent content in Capirca on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2010/04/a-quick-intro-to-googles-capirca/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2010/04/a-quick-intro-to-googles-capirca/ <p>Yeled left a comment earlier this week asking if I&rsquo;d seen <a href="http://code.google.com/p/capirca/">Google&rsquo;s Capirca</a>.  I&rsquo;d heard of it and checked out some presentation slides on it, but I&rsquo;d never actually tried it out, so, in keeping with the script, I downloaded it to see what it could do.  Remember, now, that I&rsquo;ve been playing with it for about 2 hours now, so I&rsquo;m no expert on its use.</p> <p>Capirca is a Python-based solution that Google came up with to automate ACL creation on their many thousands of routers around the world.  You can&rsquo;t blame them for wanting to automate it, either.  How many times do you think they ran into problems with typos or keying errors from their network guys across those devices?</p>