[rancid] Menu-only and/or TFTP-only equipment

["Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"]

I'm evaluating Rancid's suitability for our purposes and have a few 
questions:

Some equipment (e.g. some HP equipment as far as I remember and 
definitely some Nortel/BayStack equipment) only supports ncurses menus 
where one has to send arrow-up, arrow-down, "Enter" etc and sift through 
the ncurses output.

We're ok to expand RANCID's functionality (and send patches back! :-) 
but we need menu navigation to be possible. Are there any of the 
existing equipment types that succesfully navigate a menu?

It doesn't look to me like RANCID's split into a Tcl/expect based *login 
and a perl based *rancid is well suited for scripting this sort of 
interaction. (In fact hpuifilter seems to have been written exactly to 
avoid this nastiness)

Also, we have some equipment that only supports getting the 
configuration via a TFTP server:
* Telnet to equipment
* Navigate through menus to send config to TFTP server
* exit telnet
* Retreive info via TFTP
Has anybody succesfully needed/done that?

Peter
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