telnet hanging

[Matthew Davy]

I've had problems with telnet and ssh hanging on certain routers for a while 
now.  Seems to get better or worse depending on what version of IOS we're 
running.   (Incidentally, I haven't seen any problems with Junipers).  Last 
week it started hanging on the same router about every other time I ran a diff.

I saw a note about a possible expect bug on Linux, but I couldn't get the older
version which was posted on the rancid page to build and I upgraded to the 
newest versions of expect and tcl and it didn't fix it either.    
 
I installed the same versions of rancid (2.2.2), expect (5.38) and tcl (8.3) 
on a FreeBSD box last Friday and have been running diffs every hour since 
without a problem.

- Matt

 
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:19:27PM -0400, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
> I've installed rancid-2.2.2 on a Red Hat 7.2 system and have noticed a 
> problem where telnet (spawned from clogin) hangs on one particular router 
> (the first in router.db).  When I check the router, the telnet session has 
> successfully logged in and is just sitting idle.  I've seen it hung for as 
> much as an hour before I've killed the telnet process.
> 
> I did a quick search of the archive and didn't see anyone reporting 
> something similar.  Anyone seen/solved this before?
> 
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