[22447] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco config checker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Mon Jan 4 10:59:51 1999
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:28:14 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0zxBoN-0008G4C@rip.psg.com>
>
> 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.
We have such tool (I estimate it as _ALPHA_), our neighbour RELARN have
another example of this tool (simple but faster).
I think there is a lot of such tools written everywhere _for internal
usage_ and withouth documentation.
>
> as syntax (and occasionally semantics) changes release to release, a version
> of the code would have to come with each image set.
It's the dream... -:) If all Cisco's managers stop to be managers and
remember their young years when they was (if was) small ISP's systadmins
and so on, then... -:).
>
> 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.
Don't remind me GATED, please -:(... strict language, well defined
syntax... I does use it to learn students...
But how can I explain such command (for example):
async default routing
or something more terrible...? On the other hand, it's a lot of pleasant
in IOS's behaviour...
Happy New Year, btw.
>
> randy
>
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