[c-nsp] 3750E 12.2(53)SE2 swallows blank lines for banner motd

Sascha Pollok nsp-list at pollok.net
Thu Jun 3 09:53:26 EDT 2010


Alexander,

good point!

>> It seems, that this switch ignores blank lines as it results in:
>>
>> banner motd#
>>   This is __switchname__
>>   Blabla
>>   Unauthorized .
>> #
>>
>> Anyone with a similar experience?
>>
> I get the same.  My workaround is to dump the config over TFTP
> somewhere, tweak up the banner there, and copy it back.  That seems to
> work...albeit it is truly horrible as solutions go.

I simply wrote my banner motd config to a text-file and copied
it to the switch using copy tftp://x.x.x.x/banner.txt running-config.
No need to copy the whole configuration.

It works if its done that way.

Thanks
Sascha



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