On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.?


Pretty sure iptables it would work since that's part of the kernel. The
DHCP, DNS, etc. would probably take a little more effort but that's just
speculation. Depending on how frequently you do this it might be worthwhile
to create some sed/awk/perl scripts to "translate" the config file from one
server to another.

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