[rancid] Re: "Proxied" config backups

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Flavio Vettori" ;
> 
> I would ask people here about the chance to use one rancid-managed 
> network box (in my case Cisco IOS devices such routers and switches) to 
> reach other boxes "behind" it and this way do the things rancid does so 
> well.
> 
> I've already seen this post:
> 
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2006-May/001490.html
> 
> and also this one:
> 
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2006-June/001550.html
> 
> But it needs kind a coder to get that solution work and I couldn't 
> manage to after some hours of trying.

I set this up late last year.

http://supine.com/weblog/tech/software/rancid_with_bzr_and_multihop.html

Try that newer version of the patch and see how you go.

cheers
Marty