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

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:45:14PM -0700, Mike Leber wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Morten Isaksen wrote:
> > You could use TFTP.
> 
> Does TFTP support sending just partial config changes to do things like
> add customers addresses or BGP sessions to routers?
> 
> (Also, we don't allow SNMP write communities anywhere on our network due
> to repeated and numerous ASN.1 holes.)

TFTP does partial changes, just like if you TFTP'd a config file to a 
Cisco, the downside being that if you don't want to trigger it via SNMP 
you have to script a login to the box. SCP is a better way, but on older 
code scping to running-config overwrote the entire thing and replaced it 
with what you were uploading, which is Bad (tm). I submitted a feature 
request for partial updates of the config from SCP, which I'm pretty sure 
was implemented in newer MLX/XMR code, but I forget the exact version 
where this happened offhand.

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