[f-nsp] Pasting long configs using Console to MLX

[Mike Leber]

On Cisco's you could rcp the config changes and it worked great.

We've been pushing Foundry to implement some variation of this
functionality for scp, as well as the RFC specified behavior of ssh for
remote command execution that Foundry left out (what would be equivalent
to the Cisco rsh ability).

Both of these are vital to managing large numbers of routers via scripts
from unix boxes.

If you care about either of these, please please please bug your Foundry
rep.

We just need the equivalent of rcp and rsh under IOS, great if its done
with ssh.

tcl and expect only go so far, and are a hell of a hack (sure we've
wrappered it, still...).

Mike.

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Piper, James wrote:

> We experienced an issue when long config files were pasted directly or
> indirectly (via console server) onto a MLX.
>  
> We did the following:
>  
> The same config was cut and pasted to the Foundry NetIron MLX via a
> console server and then later directly to the console port. The config
> in question was a long MPLS IP/BGP config.
>  
> The switch can't keep up with the commands and somehow the text gets
> garbled. What was worse was that some of the garbled text got
> interpretted as commands by the switch.
>  
> We tried a variety of flow control settings: none, hardware and
> software. Hardware doesn't seem to work at all. None and software work
> but both produce the same broken results.
>  
> There seems to be no solution to this. It is believed that this issue is
> due to a limited buffer on the console port. Don't risk it, TFTP it!
>  
> James Piper. 
>  
> 
> 
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