On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Nathan Nutter<[email protected]> wrote:
> If you were using any of the community firmwares you could at least export
> settings or copy config files around.

That would work, too, if the software in the firmware is identical to
the one in the VM.  Are they?  For example, if I create a bunch of
iptable rules in my VM, will I be able to transfer those rules to the
firmware?  Same question if I configure a DHCP server, DNS server,
etc.?

> Kind of a side note but on the topic of trying out lots of different
> configurations. There is a cool tool called etckeeper that in simple terms
> puts /etc under version control but it hooks into apt, yum, etc. too. Just
> an interesting idea if you're changing a lot. Once you get a cool setup or
> find an interesting bug you could tag that version for later reference.

Nice.  Thanks for the tip.  Here's the link:

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/etckeeper.html

Regards,
- Robert

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