[rancid] Re: Download configs from one router through another

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Alex Dekker <rancid at ale.cx> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 23:56:37 Graham Fleming wrote:
>
>> I have many clients with routers and switches on an internal network
>> that I can access either via VPN or by Cisco CLI by logging into their
>> public WAN-facing router and then drilling through the network that way.
>
> I'm in a similar position to yourself, and I'm sure when I asked this I was
> told it wasn't going to happen.
>
>> I think I understand that I need to patch RANCID to allow this behavior.
>> So, here is my question:
>>
>> How do I get this patch and how do I apply the patch to enable RANCID to
>> hop from one router to another?
>
> You're assuming the patch exists, although I assumed RANCID would do this
> before I looked into it also. If you do find it, please let me know.

Ed Ravin developed just the thing you need a few years ago.  I've
attached a copy that I've re-based to apply against version 2.3.2a8.

-- 
Jeff Ollie

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."

	-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
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