[rancid] Re: Tunneling Telnet connections

[Oliver Gorwits]

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Steve D. Ousley wrote:
> We manage 2 data centres, and have some switches in the second
> (unmanned) data centre that are being backed up from our Rancid box in
> the primary (manned) data centre.  What we would like though is some
> secure way to get the configs from the remote data centre. 

You might be able to SSH to a router in your remote data centre,
then Telnet from there. So at least the hop across the Internet is SSH.

Can't recall if this is a feature in RANCID or a patch previously
given on this list though, sorry, but it sounds familar.

regards,
oliver.
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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