[rancid] Brocade MLX16 generate diff on up time change date

[Tobias Brunner]

Hi,

> I've a particular small issue with Brocade/Foundry MLX16 devices. My crond
> job is configured to run Rancid every two hours and every two hours I
> receive messages alerting me that configs has changed on the MLX16 switches
> but the diff is related to Up Time change like this:
> 
> - !Switch Fabric Module 1 Up Time is 64 days 3 hours 10 minutes 28 seconds
> + !Switch Fabric Module 1 Up Time is 64 days 5 hours 10 minutes 47 seconds
> 
> This happen only on MLX16 models, the other Brocade/Foundry doesn't have
> this problem.

We had exactly the same issue, see http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2013-January/006632.html

And here are some more infos: http://tobrunet.ch/2013/01/backup-brocade-router-config-with-rancid/

Cheers,
Tobias

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