An unsupported, or "use at your own risk," modules section on the FTP site would certainly make finding these easier, and allow for a central repository that will remain up as long as RANCID is supported. As it stands now they are hosted on various FTP/Web servers, which will probably be broken links as time goes by.<br clear="all">
<br>-- Eric Cables<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:25 PM, john heasley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heas@shrubbery.net">heas@shrubbery.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:06:40PM -0700, Eric Cables:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> After a quick search through the archives, I came across this link (<br>
> <a href="http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/" target="_blank">http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/</a>), which quickly allowed me to archive a<br>
> couple Dell PowerConnect switches that I inherited. I am currently running<br>
> 2.3.2, but after checking the latest 2.3.3 tarball it doesn't appear to have<br>
> native Dell integration. This also makes me wonder if the other changes<br>
> I've made over the years through community based patches (SAN-OS support,<br>
> for example) will be supported once moving to 2.3.3 (once it is officially<br>
> released).<br>
><br>
> Is it possible to add in the dlogin/drancid/fe-rancid updates found in the<br>
> above into the 2.3.3 release? Are other community based patches generally<br>
> incorporated into the next release, or is that not common practice?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I won't import patches or new modules that I can't verify somehow because<br>
they become support burdens for me - only occasionally is a contributed<br>
module 95%+ functional and if i dont have that h/w myself, its really<br>
difficult to help with problems. riverstone and netscreen for example.<br>
nothing against their authors; consider my side of it.<br>
<br>
someone else, you, verifying that the module works is great. I'd like to<br>
see o/p and .raw files from a few folks, w/o stuff removed (change things<br>
like password crypts to something similar but equal syntax), to help<br>
ensure everything is covered. then try to make sure that error cases are<br>
handled. please share your o/p.<br>
<br>
i'm happy to make an unsupported section of the ftpsite for unproven<br>
modules, if folks would like to send them to me.<br>
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