Exactly, they added a hook to hang it on...
Of course why this was done for acess lists where you could already use
a descriptiive name and not as-path's or community-lists is really
frustrating....
George
> To: George Robbins <grr@netaxs.com>
> CC: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net, hank@att.net.il
> Subject: Re: [nsp] ! comments
>
>
> You can save comments in access lists now using something like
>
> access-list 101 remark This is a comment
>
>
>
> George Robbins wrote:
>
> > You're forgetting that Cisco doens't really preserve the textual config,
> > when you do a "write" the config is regenerated from internal data
> > structures. Comments (or more accurately descriptive text) are preserved
> > only where there's something to hang them on, such as an interface, BGP
> > session or access list, not just at random places in the config file.
> >
> > One way around this is to maintain text-based configs on a server and have
> > the router tftp the config when booting.
> >
> > George
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:21:39 +0200
> > > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > > From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
> > > Subject: [nsp] ! comments
> > >
> > > Is there a new command yet in IOS that will allow me to save the ! comments
> > > inline in the online config file? If so, what version?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hank
> > >
>
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