Location of ACL on the filesystem and scp

[dvandyk]

Hello, 

I have a rather large ACL I need to first create and then later apply to a ASR9k device. Instead of pasting the ACL in the conf mode, is there any way I can scp the ACL to the device? I don't want to scp it into the running conf in a active state. I need to get it on the device first before applying it to interfaces.  

I can't seem to locate current ACLs in the files system so am not sure what path in the filesystem I should scp the ACL too. 

Thanks

[Richard Burts]

I do not believe that there is any entry in the file system for current ACL. There are a couple of options that you an consider:

- you might scp the new ACL as a file in the filesystem and at the appropriate time copy <file> running-config

- you might take a current copy of running-config, edit it to insert the new ACL, scp the updated config to router startup-config, and at appropriate time copy startup-config running-config.

HTH

Rick