[c-nsp] runing-config "!"-Problem

[Joe Maimon]

Jared Mauch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:08:20PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:53:37AM +0100, Florian Prester wrote:
>>
>>>how can I controll, when a "!" is set and when not in the running-config.
>>>
>>>Because normally a "!" is set after the ACL-block in a running-config, 
>>>but now I found a server which differs!
>>
>>You can't control that - and parsing IOS running-config is always an
>>interesting experience.
> 
> 
> 	Yeah.
> 
> 	I've spent a lot of time "speaking" (seemingly at cisco, nobody
> really cares) about why large chunks of configs are "reordered" between
> software versions.  Anyone who is for consistenty on this front
> should talk to your reps and explain how important this is to
> being a sustainable model for long-term growth of IOS.
> 
> 	- jared
> 
> 
You mean so that diff -u actualy only shows differences?

Now that cisco includes diff functionality for IOS configs one might 
think they may be more interested in this.

To be fair this possibly could be a tough constraint to place the parser 
people under.