[c-nsp] equivalent of juniper "routing-instance" on sup720

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Tue Feb 8 12:45:49 EST 2005


> I've found management within a VRF painful, namely given that many
> commands assumet the global table.

Agreed. It's also incredibly inconsistent - "ping ... vrf" but "telnet 
... /vrf ... " etc.

> Hopefully I'll have a syswish going in soon, but I'd really like to
> see a 'term vrf <name>' exec-mode command to switch between VRF's for
> exec commands (i.e. traceroute, ping, copy, telnet, ssh) . As-is,
> many/most of them are usuable either via their own (differing) command
> line arguments or via source-interface config clauses, but a cleaner
> switch would make training alot easier...

Sounds like you want a Juniper ERX :-)  which has something very similar
to this.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


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