[rancid] Re: Rancid - clogin -hangs on a cisco router

[john heasley]

Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:39:54PM -0700, Jeremy McCourt:
> I had an issue with this recently as well, only every now and then I 
> would get a complete router config.
> For me my issue happened to be a switch port was set to auto-negotiate 
> and the gateway firewall wasn't, this was causing some major network 
> slowdowns and rancid would eventually timeout.

"timeout".  that is important; it should not hang.  if it is in fact
hanging, have you applied the expect patch for solaris that is linked on
rancid web page?

> Most people turn off autoneg on their switches/NIC's and hardcode it to 
> 100/full (or whatever the max speed on both ends is) on both just to be 
> on the safe side.
> running an scp or a ftp through the environment can give you a good 
> indication of how fast you end to end connectivity is.
> 
> -Jeremy
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> > Llorente
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2007 5:49 AM
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> > *Subject:* [rancid] Rancid - clogin -hangs on a cisco router
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> > Hi All...
> >
> > Getting a problem with Rancid.
> > Rancid doesn't dowload the configurations. It hangs with "show running 
> > config"
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> > Rancid is: rancid-2.3.2a6
> > TCL is 8.5a4
> > Expect is 5.43
> > Solaris 8
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
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