[rancid] rancid "losing" characters

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

I will check this for certain and send on an updated version to the list if
necessary.

Gavin
 On 16 Oct 2013 20:28, "heasley" <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:30:02AM -0400, Stephen Griffin:
> > So, I have a version of rancid 2.3.8 installed, and I've been noticing on
> > some of our Foundry/Brocade gear that some commands are failing because a
> > character is lost.. for example, skip-page-dilay instead of
> > skip-page-display.
> >
> > Our prior version of rancid was quite old (so old that no one really was
> > quite sure of what version it was), and we don't recall seeing this
> > behaviour. It feels like a buffer being exhausted, but 2.3.8 uses
> > send_human, which should be slowing things down.
> >
> > The version of expect wasn't changed, and is 5.43.0
> >
> > We did fold in some of our older custom changes, but I have a difficult
> > time believing those would impact lost characters.
> >
> > Has anyone run into this or something similar?
>
> there once was a problem with hpuifilter that caused this, but that would
> not affect foundry, only hp/hlogin.  perhaps that was part of your changes?
>
> otherwise, i'd suspect expect.
>
> > I did a test run, by sending "show 802" to a bunch of devices, and came
> up
> > with:
> >       1 e
> >     145 exit
> >       1 sh
> >       1 show 02
> >       1 show 80
> >     145 show 802
> >       1 show802
> >       1 skip-page-ay
> >     148 skip-page-display
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> > --
> > Stephen A. Griffin
> > Network Engineer
> > Google Acquisition Netops
>
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