RANCID hangs with HP 4104 and 2524

[Chris Gallardo]

actually both of these devices use the HP driver so use hlogin to test
it.  I have gotten hlogin -c 'show config' IP_ADDRESS to work with my
hp 4104's, 4108's, and 2524's

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Chris Gallardo


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, john heasley wrote:

> AFAIK and as far as rancid is concerned, there are two types of HP
> switches; Foundry OEMs and HP.  the foundry OEM boxes use an (even
> more twisted) version of Foundry's o/s, but should be of device type
> foundry and thus use flogin, not clogin.  The HP switches use ansi
> screen controls heavily.  That garbage has to be filtered out for
> rancid.  These are of device type hp and use hlogin.
>
> you will have to determine the proper device type from the description
> above.  If you still have failures, then please provide a transcript of
> a login, eg: hlogin sw_name
>
> if you are using linux or solaris and logins are successful, but you
> still get hangs, see the expect patch (hack) on the rancid web page.
>
> Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:52:23AM -0800, Big Wave Dave:
>> Actually its a 4104GL and a 2824.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:29:33 -0800, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> RANCID seems to hang since I added an HP 4104 and 2524 into the
>>> config.  I have numerous other devices configured previously, that
>>> were all Cisco devices.  Running "clogin 192.168.1.x" works find for
>>> the HP devices.  I am using type "hp" in the router.db files.  Am I
>>> missing something?
>>>
>>> Expect = 5.42.1
>>> RANCID = Version 2.3.1
>>> Perl = 5.8.5
>>> Tcl = 8.4.7
>>>
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>>
>>
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