Proposed Extreme changes.

Alex Bochannek ABochannek at yipes.com
Sat Sep 29 00:39:55 UTC 2001


Good data point. Thanks!

Alex Bochannek 
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	'john heasley' [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent:	Friday, September 28, 2001 5:39 PM
To:	Alex Bochannek
Cc:	'john heasley'; 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject:	Re: Proposed Extreme changes.

Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0700, Alex Bochannek:
> One thing I need to know is what the largest number of devices is anybody
> uses Rancid for. Tens? Hundreds? Considering how long it can take for
telnet
> to terminate an unsuccessful connection (on Solaris), I am bit worried
about
> scalability.

have seen as many as 700.  bin/control_rancid:PAR_COUNT=5 could be raised
to process more devices concurrently.  that should really be a bin/env
knob; which i'll add to the todo list.

> Thanks.
> 
> Alex Bochannek 
> Senior Unix/Network Engineer 
> Yipes ... that's fast! 
> (415) 901-2000 
> (415) 901-2090 (direct) 
> www.yipes.com
>  
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
> Sent:	Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:59 AM
> To:	Alex Bochannek
> Cc:	'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
> Subject:	Re: Proposed Extreme changes.
> 
> i havent had a chance to look at these.  didnt want you to think we
> were ignoring you.
> 
> Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:47:13PM -0700, Alex Bochannek:
> > I am finally getting around working on Rancid for Extreme and had some
> > problems getting it to work. Here are my proposed changes:



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