CatOS Problem

[john heasley]

Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:12:20PM +0200, Soren Hansen:
> Well, on all my CatOS boxes I only had the output from "write term" in CVS. With the update, I now have the output from "write term all". No changes in CatOS recently.
> I'll probably change the intervals for retrieving end user access switch configurations now, as I keep getting mails when users come and go, because of the spanning tree port cost changes.

In theory, you should not run spanning tree on access ports, only trunk ports;
ie: should which connect to another switch.  And, if there are no forwarding
loops in your switch topology, dont run it at all.

> /Soren
> 
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:25:57PM -0700, john heasley wrote:
> > Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Soren Hansen:
> > > Hi John,
> > > Works for me as well.
> > > As far as I can tell, all devices were updated as a consequence of basing the saved configuration on "write term all" instead of "write term". This is fine by me.
> > 
> > rancid should only use the 'write term' output if 'write term all' fails.
> > not all CatOS versions support 'all', esp. the older models.
> > 
> > > Thank you both for your effort.
> > > 
> > > /Soren
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:20:12PM -0700, john heasley wrote:
> > > > Could you all please try this version of clogin.in?
> > > > 	ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/clogin.in
> > > > 
> > > > I believe Christopher (in a private email) hit on the bug that is triggering
> > > > at least some of these issues.  It was fixed, but we've have not been able
> > > > release a 2.3.2.
> > > >