[rancid] Working with an HP Procurve 2900-48G and 2910al-48G

[Jeff B]

2.3.5 works like a dream.  I guess I just found rancid 1 week too
early.  Thanks.


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:05:04AM -0400, Jeff B:
>> Hello I'm new to rancid and I'm trying to set up these two HP Procurve Switches:
>>
>> ProCurve J9050A Switch 2900-48G, revision T.13.71, ROM K.12.12
>> (/sw/code/build/mbm(t3a))
>> ProCurve J9147A 2910al-48G Switch, revision W.14.50, ROM W.14.04
>>
>> I'm having several different problems which I'll describe,  at first I
>> was unsure if I should be using hlogin or flogin but now I'm pretty
>> sure that I need to be using hlogin because the foundry command to
>> turn off paging is not understood.  Ironically I get farther with
>> flogin than I'm able to with hlogin.
>>
>> When I use hlogin I get to 2 different points depending on if I'm
>> using telnet or ssh to connect to it.  When using telnet I get the
>> following error
>>
>> Command:
>>  hlogin -c "show version" hpswitch-telnet.example.com
>
>        ...
> i think that you just have an older rancid.  try 2.3.5, tomorrow.
>
>> When I use SSH to connect to the switch I have a problem with the
>> hpuifilter not working right and dropping characters so expect never
>> finds what it's looking for.
>
>        ...
>
> i think that you're using linux.  i went through this with another user
> a few weeks ago.  there is a new and exciting libc that seems to have a
> bug w/ recognizing wide characters and the jibberish coming from the hp
> seems to trigger it.  anyway, i think 2.3.5 will fix this for you.
>