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

[Morten Isaksen]

Hi!

You could use TFTP. Either download the config from the switch via
TFTP or make the switch upload the config file to a TFTP server. You
can do this with SNMP.

On 6/8/07, Chris Gauthier <cgauthie at pcc.edu> wrote:
> Ahh, I'm not feeling so bad now...
>
> I've got a nice perl script that telnets to my foundry equipment and I am
> supposed to convert it to SSH.  I noticed I was having problems.  It's
> because of their lack of support for commands?  Any suggestions on how I
> might script nightly backups of the switch configs via a perl script, but
> not using telnet?
>
> Chris Gauthier, CCNA, Network+, A+
Network Administration Team
Portland
> Community College
Portland, Oregon

"For once you have tasted flight you
> will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been
> and there you will long to return."
--Leonardo da Vinci
>
>
> Mike Leber wrote:
> 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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