[j-nsp] Bulk updates to Netscreen 5400

[Phil Mayers]

Phil Mayers wrote:
> Tim Eberhard wrote:
>> I would not suggest playing with that fire...
>>
>> My personal suggestion to make "bulk" updates or update many 
>> configuration items at once would be to create the list of changes to a 
>> file and then tftp merge it into the configuration.
>>
>> It will go very fast and you can tell if anything errored out instantly.
>>
>> merging part 1000 lines via tftp takes just 10-15 seconds.
> 
> Hmm. Interesting. I'll give that a go.

Sadly, that doesn't seem to help. The firewall still stops responding to 
pings, SNMP monitoring, other CLI sessions and so forth, even for small 
updates. Thanks for the suggestion though.