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Nipper updated to 0.11.6

Thursday 10 April 2008

Nipper is an open source tool that performs a security audit of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. Nipper was previously known as CiscoParse.

Nipper currently supports the following devices:

- Cisco Switches (IOS)
- Cisco Routers (IOS)
- Cisco Firewalls (PIX, ASA, FWSM)
- Cisco Catalysts (NMP, CatOS, IOS)
- Cisco Content Service Switches (CSS)
- Juniper NetScreen Firewalls (ScreenOS)
- CheckPoint Firewall-1 (FW1)
- Nokia IP Firewalls (FW1)
- Nortel Passport Devices
- Bay Networks Accelar Switches
- SonicWALL SonicOS Firewalls (SonicOS)

Changelog for maintenance release 0.11.6 :
- Made the SNMP text more concise.
- Fixed alternative IOS domain name line.
- Fixed ICMP message in ACL line issue.
- Changed MOP default for VLAN interfaces.
- Fixed MOP setting for subinterfaces.
- Updated subinterface output in configuration report for IOS devices.
- Fixed IOS banner line


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