Problems deleting filters
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Q:
Filters that are deleted (using filtcfg) keep coming back after 5-10 minutes.
What is happening, and how can we permanently remove filters that we don't
want?
A:
You aren't really deleting them at all. Check the logger screen next time
you try, and I think you will see -6001 errors.
I generally make sure I have at least two good copies of filters.cfg, and
that filters.cfg actually has my exceptions in there. Then I delete all the
filters from NDS (delete all objects in the nbmrulecontainer) and remigrate
using a filtsrv migrate procedure. It may be easier to just try a filtsrv
migrate -cf without first deleting things from NDS, as the -cf is supposed to
do that for you.
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Reader Comments
- It is possible that the cause of the problem is a service type rather than a rule - deleting the rules and migrating them may not fix the problem and filtcfg may or may not be able to delete a corrupt service type. Rules live in the nbmrulecontainer but service (ie packet) types are stored as an attribute of the container itself - you can see them in the 'other' tab on C1. If you can figure out which one is causing the trouble (usually the last one you created - a UDP range in my case), you can kill it in C1.