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Nipper 0.12.0 released (featuring library and command line based)

Sunday 31 August 2008

Nipper is a Network Infrastructure Parser (with an extra P for good measure). It takes it’s input from a network devices configuration file(s), processes it/them and generates a nice friendly report. Nipper is platform independent, supports a range of network devices from different manufacturers and the report output can be in a variety of formats.

The first version of Nipper to be released as a library/command line utility. This release represents a major update to the codebase and some significant changes to functionality.

Nipper now includes support for more devices and support for the existing devices has been significantly improved. These devices are listed below:

- 3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall
- Bay Networks Accelar
- CheckPoint Firewall Module
- CheckPoint Management Module
- Cisco IOS-based Router
- Cisco IOS-based Catalyst Switch
- Cisco PIX-based Firewall
- Cisco ASA-based Firewall
- Cisco FWSM-based Router
- Cisco CatOS-based Catalyst
- Cisco NMP-based Catalyst
- Cisco Content Services Switch
- HP ProCurve Switches
- Juniper NetScreen Firewall
- Nokia IP Firewall
- Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8300
- Nortel Passport Device
- SonicWall SonicOS Firewall


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