[c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

[Jared Mauch]

A few things:

On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Sascha Pollok wrote:

>> Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters in config ?
> [...]
>> At issue is when I do 'show run | inc 2607:ff70' and get nothing I scratch my head for a second.  Then I try 'show run | inc 2607:FF70' and get what I expected.  This seems inefficent, error-prone, and likely to drive Randy Bush crazy :) <ducks>
> 
> +1 !
> 

1) This is something the parser police should review and possibly push down from NSSTG

> Especially as you need to raise and lower the small finger up and down
> during typing as your example could also easily result in !"=/:FF/=
> at least on a German layout ;-)

2) Another good reason to review it

> I'd be happy satisfied enough if "| inc" would be case-insensitive. Or is there an option I missed? Or a thoughtful reason to leave it as it is?

3) You may be able to get something closer to this with the following:

Router#sh run partition XXX

- Jared