[rancid] Fortigate - tweak suggestion as well as issue with spacing FortiOS >5.4+

Griesser Alexander AGriesser at anexia-it.com
Thu Jun 8 06:36:15 UTC 2017


> > -     next
> > + next
> >   end
> > can be fixed by adding "ignore-whitespace" as a diff option which would make sense in all situations I guess; not sure if there's any router/switch/firewall which really cares about whitespace syntax-wise.

> True, but this would filter spaces that are legitimate. :)

Like which ones? I'm not aware of any legitimate spaces in the configuration of networking devices - does anyone have a syntax example for any device which makes a difference between one or two spaces in the configuration?

Best,
Alex



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