[22444] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco config checker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 4 10:48:53 1999
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:20:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
for two+ years, i have been asking cisco for a simple text-based tool that
can take two configs and generate the command set to get from the first to
the second. i.e. a semantic differ.
as syntax (and occasionally semantics) changes release to release, a version
of the code would have to come with each image set.
note that this would go a way to compete with the really nice behavior of
gated-like systems, e.g. juniper, which, when given a new configuration,
does not thrash all your bgp sessions etc., but slides smoothly to the new
state.
randy
