[FW1] How is a rulebase exported?

[Graham Leggett <minfrin@FW1-NOSPAMsharp.fm>]

Hi all,

In a nutshell:

I have a 4.0 based firewall and management console installation. Running
alongside it is a brand new v4.1SP2 firewall and management console
installation. I need to export the rulesets from the v4.0 config and
load it into the v4.1 system.

Is there ANY way whatsoever to get a v4.0 configuration exported out of
v4.0 and into v4.1?

The documentation includes a really lame line saying that simply copying
the config files from the one system to the other won't work. It then
neglects to mention what will work.

None of the upgrade procedures work. Every single time we have tried we
have ended up with either a corrupt configuration or a firewall and
management console that refuse point blank to talk to each other. With
the inherent instability that FW1 has demonstrated so far there is no
way we can risk trying anything on the live installation.

We are completely desperate. Has anyone successfully managed to do this?

Regards,
Graham
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