[f-nsp] RANCID with MLX 3.9.00a

[Nick Buraglio]

It should be noted that I did not add the comment in the diff, that is  
a RANCID "feature" apparently.

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Nick Buraglio
Network Engineer, CITES, University of Illinois
GPG key 0x2E5B44F4
Phone: 217.244.6428
buraglio at illinois.edu



On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Nick Buraglio wrote:

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> After not looking at this problem for a bit I finally got back to it  
> and found that the problem was with how skip-page-display was  
> handled.  On the MLX code that I am running that command isn't there  
> for the priv level I was using for the rancid process.  As opposed  
> to messing around and giving more access to the rancid user, I found  
> that MLX boxes now support "terminal length 0", so I just changed  
> the flogin code to support that.  Since this instance of RANCID  
> won't need to support older foundries and the user access level  
> isn't shouldn't change, this was the right choice.
> There may be an easier way but I'm still relatively new to foundry- 
> land (or brocade-land?) and this works.
>
> For anyone else that has my one-off problem, here is the diff for  
> flogin:
>
> - --- flogin.orig 2009-02-25 17:07:12.000000000 -0600
> +++ flogin      2009-02-25 15:58:49.000000000 -0600
> @@ -506,7 +506,8 @@
>     global in_proc
>     set in_proc 1
>
> - -    send "skip-page-display\r"
> +#    send "skip-page-display\r"
> +    send "terminal length 0\r"
>     expect -re "$prompt" {}
>
>     set commands [split $command \;]
> @@ -677,7 +678,8 @@
>        }
>     } elseif { $do_script } {
>        # fucking foundry
> - -       send "skip-page-display\r"
> +       #send "skip-page-display\r"
> +       send "terminal length 0\r"
>        expect -re $prompt      {}
>        source $sfile
>        catch {close};
>
>
> It's not exactly rocket science, basically just 2 very simple  
> changes.  I know this is a little off topic for the list but since  
> the thread started here I figured I'd follow up with the fix here  
> (as well as the rancid list).
>
>
> nb
>
>
> - ---
> Nick Buraglio
> Network Engineer, CITES, University of Illinois
> GPG key 0x2E5B44F4
> Phone: 217.244.6428
> buraglio at illinois.edu
>
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Nick Buraglio wrote:
>
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>> Has anyone had success running RANCID 2.3.2a7 against a foundry MLX  
>> running 3.9.00a over ssh?  We're seeing some strange behavior that  
>> we don't expect and I'm just looking for confirmation that someone  
>> else has actually done this with these parameters.
>> As an interesting data point, it works fine using telnet and the  
>> RANCID install works fine for other vendor boxes, which is why I'm  
>> seeking anyone else that has done it under the aforementioned  
>> circumstances.
>> Again, I'm not necessarily looking for any kind of RANCID support  
>> (since this isn't a RANCID support list) just a "yes, I've done it"  
>> from someone out there.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> nb
>>
>>
>> - ---
>> Nick Buraglio
>> Network Engineer, CITES, University of Illinois
>> GPG key 0x2E5B44F4
>> Phone: 217.244.6428
>> buraglio at illinois.edu
>>
>>
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