[rancid] Re: Blogin support for Nortel 5520

[Francois Mikus]

Hello,

Do you have consistency in the capture of the Ctrl-Y + L.

I have found in testing against 470s(which use the same Menu as the 
ERS-55x0), that it works 95% of the time. But the more commands are 
issued in the Menu, the more likely the rancid jams in a loop. I have 
successfully configured and tested rancid for ERS-1600, ERS-8600, 
ES-470s with my new custom modules based brancid, another which I can't 
remember.

Increasing delay before sending commands does help, but it has not 
reached the magic 100% reliability of a regular CLI method.

I would suggest configuring your switches to always come up in CLI 
instead of menu, avoiding all of this hassle. Rancid can automate the 
configuration of CLI mode. Just run it once, check your logs, then 
correct the outsanding ones. Or just run rancid a couple times. ;-)

Cheers,

Francois Mikus

Juan Carlos Huerta wrote:
> I made some modifications to blogin to support the Nortel Baystack 
> 5520 UI (Ctrl-Y + "L" to enter directly to the CLI), I'l be glad to 
> cooperate in the project if you think it's ok.
>
> JC
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 8:21 PM, Juan Carlos Huerta 
> <juancarloshuerta at gmail.com <mailto:juancarloshuerta at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm working in a little modification to blogin to support this,
>     I'll let you know any update.
>
>
>     On Nov 13, 2007 7:52 PM, john heasley < heas at shrubbery.net
>     <mailto:heas at shrubbery.net>> wrote:
>
>         Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:56:56PM -0600, Juan Carlos Huerta:
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > Is there any support with blogin to Nortel siwtches with UI?
>         (in my case
>         > 5520). I want to connect to it using blogin, but the problem
>         is that when I
>         > try to ssh my switch it shows an UI (Press Ctrl+Y, use arrow
>         keys, etc)
>
>         sorry, such UIs are not supported.
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Juan Carlos 
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Juan Carlos
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