integration of security enhancement patch

[john heasley]

Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:28:48PM +1100, Andrew Fort:
> On 7/01/2004 3:03 PM, john heasley wrote:
> 
> >2) what i'd like to add for rancid 3.0 (or whatever) are boiler-plate 
> >device
> >  types.  for example, type "cisco" runs commands x, y, & z.  but, a user
> >  can define their own type, cisco-startup which might run x, y, z, & show
> >  startup-config.  not quite sure how to do that yet.
> > 
> >
> 
> Thinking out loud here, but...
> How about merging the concept covered in 'rancid-fe' with this, so you 
> have a device type which nominates a given *rancid script to execute and 
> also a file which has the commands for that script to run, along with 
> the function names to parse them.  The parsers commands are split out 
> into a perl module or similar, with examples on how to write your own 
> and what inputs to expect and outputs to provide.

that is what i had in mind.  plus some default device "types".