seq number in cisco prefix-list

[Mazlumyan, Rafi]

--On Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:55:22 PM +0200 Yuval Ben-Ari 
<yuvalba at netvision.net.il> wrote:

>> when you insert a rule between/before an existing rule, then the
>> sequence numbers of the rules don't change...but if you renumber so
>> that the rules are always 5 apart, then a portion of the list would
>> change (this is likely the case for people who automagically generate
>> their filters)
>> ex:
>>     seq 5 permit 10.0.0.0/8
>>     seq 10 permit 20.0.0.0/8
>>     seq 15 permit 30.0.0.0/8
>> becomes:
>>     seq 5 permit 2.0.0.0/8
>>     seq 10 permit 10.0.0.0/8
>>     seq 15 permit 20.0.0.0/8
>>     seq 20 permit 30.0.0.0/8
>> so in this case rancid will send you a longer list of changes (since
>> technically the entire prefix list changed)
>
> I see, we do it manually so no change in sequencing.
> I think it will be useful to have this as a configurable behavior in
> future release
>

I second that request. We also do it manually.

Cheers,
Rafi.