Sorting NAT Statements... producing useless diffs...

[Ed Ravin]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:16:28PM -0700, Roderick B. Greening wrote:
> I think what I'd like to see is the NAT lines get sorted alphabetically.
> That should prevent the lines jumping around I would guess. 
> 
> Is there a routine/sort in RANCID that I can use to test this theory out?

Play around with this code in rancid:

   1459     # order ip host statements
   1460     /^ip host (\S+) / &&
   1461         ProcessHistory("IPHOST","keysort","$1","$_") && next;
   1462     # order ip nat source static statements
   1463     /^ip nat (\S+) source static (\S+)/ &&
   1464         ProcessHistory("IP NAT $1","ipsort","$2","$_") && next;

And note that "keysort" and "ipsort" evaluate to subroutines elsewhere
in rancid - you can write your own subroutine for the sorting if needed.