[rancid] Re: Vlans getting toggled on Cisco 6500

Dylan Vanderhoof DylanV at semaphore.com
Wed Jan 10 21:29:28 UTC 2007


Perfect!  That did the trick!

Thanks a lot.

-Dylan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Kennedy [mailto:terry at tmk.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:30 PM
> To: Dylan Vanderhoof
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Vlans getting toggled on Cisco 6500
> 
> 
> > I vaguely recall seeing something like this on the list 
> before, but I
> > don't remember if there was a resolution and I can't find it now.
> > Anybody have any idea how to prevent this?
> 
>   Here's my original post on the subject:
> 
> --------
> From: IN%"terry at tmk.com"       6-APR-2004 10:18:34.47
> To:   IN%"dcorbe at resultstel.com"
> CC:   IN%"rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net"
> Subj: Re: [Fwd: [netops] switches router config diffs]
>  
> > I'm getting a lot of these on my Cisco Catalyst 2950 during 
> every single
> > rancid-run update.  These are worthless diffs as there aren't any
> > changes in configuration but changes in port status.
> 
>   I know this one 8-)
> 
>   I bet you have people accessing the switches with different 
> terminal 
> width settings in their terminal programs. The VTY picks this 
> up as part
> of telnet option negotiations. Since RANCID is a 
> non-interactive session
> to the switch, it doesn't negotiate width.
> 
>   Try this patch for clogin (you'll probably need to apply it 
> manually):
> 
> *** clogin_orig Fri Aug  9 16:54:10 2002
> --- clogin      Sun Apr  6 19:20:42 2003
> ***************
> *** 455,460 ****
> --- 455,462 ----
>             send "set length 0\r"
>         } else {
>             send "term length 0\r"
> +           expect -re $prompt  {}
> +           send "term width 80\r"
>         }
>         regsub -all "\[)(]" $prompt {\\&} reprompt
>         # match cisco config mode prompts too, but not for 
> catalyst ie: (enable)
> ***************
> *** 699,704 ****
> --- 701,708 ----
>             send "set logging session disable\r"
>         } else {
>             send "term length 0\r"
> +           expect -re $prompt  {}
> +           send "term width 80\r"
>         }
>         expect -re $prompt      {}
>         source $sfile
> 
>         Terry Kennedy             http://www.tmk.com
>         terry at tmk.com             New York, NY USA
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