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>>belter+(OP)
I used to do remote work in firewalls quite often, and after locking myself out once or twice, I came up with a new habit: before making any changes I would schedule a reboot for 5min out which would revert any changes. That way if I locked myself out I could just wait for the reboot and get back in.

>>Nifty3+5n1
And then if it worked for those 5 min before the reboot, you'd redeploy the change 'for real', without a reboot?

>>dang+ey1
Yeah, there are different kinds of memory in firewalls. Like a running-config and a startup-config. If you just change the running-config and don't commit to the startup-config, when the reboot takes place it'll pull the config from the (non-modified) startup-config instead, reverting changes.