[rancid] Re: force10 S-50 support in rancid

[john heasley]

Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:52:52PM -0800, Colin Corbett:
> Hey folks,
> first time posting so go easy. (I looked in the archives and didnt see 
> this covered).
> 
> I had a devil of a time getting rancid (2.3.1) to work with the force10 
> S-50 (running rev 2.3.1). (code rev is a strange co-incidence).
> 
> problems encountered:
> 1: when telnetting/sshing in, the S-50 may miss various bits of the enable 
> password. (if its a 10 character password, some characters in the middle 
> get munged.)
> Ideal fix: have force10 figure this out and ensure that they do not miss 
> characters when enabling (ticket opened)
> Possible rancid fix: create a loop in clogin to ensure that for each 
> character sent a "*" is received.
> 
> my hack was to modify clogin:
> <HACK>-----Do not do this-----
>          -re "$e_prompt" { send "X";sleep 1;send "X"; sleep 1;send "X"; 
> sleep 1; send "X"; sleep 1; send "\r"; exp_continue}
> ----</HACK>
> (this was truly horrible.)

I think they'll just have to fix that.  Please report it to them.  a
better hack, maybe:

 set send_human {.1 .3 1 .05 2}
 send -h ....