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

[Jeremy McCourt]

Lourdes,
    Don't use ping, ICMP (ping) packets are so small that they may give 
you a misrepresentation of how your network is running, try a real 
transfer with FTP, SCP, SFTP, something that will be able to transfer 
large amounts of data. Lets say like a 10meg file, when I would try to 
transfer it with the slowdown it would take anywhere between 5-10 mins,  
I'm currently on wireless, and get about 300KB/sec and takes 35seconds, 
wired I can xfer that in under 10 seconds.
if you have access to your switch that the solaris machine is plugged 
into check that it is 100/full,
and by using ndd on the solaris box you can set it to 100/full as well.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Solaris_NIC_speed_and_duplex_settings.html 
(this page explains how to make the interface changes using ndd)
When I was having my issues, my ping was quick, I was even able to pull 
webpages off my server (but sometimes slow), but only once in a while I 
would be able to pull a full config off a router, I would see the raw 
files in the config directory, they would change size in chunks, and it 
would take quite some time.
    **you can have it use temp (raw) files by editing the rancid.conf 
file, and modify the nopipe setting.
NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE
**
       -Jeremy


Lourdes Llorente wrote:
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> Thanks for the suggestion..
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> But connectiviy is there. A ping works pretty well ...Round trip delay 
> is 123 ms.
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> Cheers,
> Lourdes
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> 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.
> 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.
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> -Jeremy
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> > *From:* rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] *On Behalf Of *Lourdes
> > Llorente
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2007 5:49 AM
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> > *Subject:* [rancid] Rancid - clogin -hangs on a cisco router
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> > 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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