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Implement atomic acl updates on cisco ios #334

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@MEschenbacher

The cisco ios generator currently removes the acl and redeploys it. This action impacts traffic and potentially permanently disrupts administrative access to the device during the process (unless explicitly designed otherwise). There is no atomic configuration application mechanism as for other networking devices (e.g. Juniper's commit or Cumulus Linux's nv config apply).

I propose a change to the generator which should be enabled by a switch/option atomic and create atomic ACL list updates in cisco ios the following way:

  • deploy the new acls (temporarily) to ${acl}-new and ipv6-${acl}-new
  • change traffic-filter and access-group to the new (temporary) acl identifiers
  • deploy the new acls to ${acl} and ipv6-${acl}
  • change traffic-filter and access-group to the regular acl identifiers ${acl} and ipv6-${acl}
  • remove the new acls ${acl}-new and ipv6-${acl}-new

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