[rancid] -cloginrc ip range

[Alan McKinnon]

.cloginrc supports the use of globs in the hostname/address field.
It's a glob and not a regex, so you are somewhat limited in how you can
express ranges. But nonetheless I can prove very useful.


I can think of two other ways to make your life easier:

- use default settings intelligently and only configure method for those
devices that are different.

- consider whether this aspect really needs optimizing or not. My
devices across the board take an average of 30 seconds for clogin to
login and finish running all commands and rancid runs 30 jobs in
parallel. Failed ssh and telnet connections fail in about half a second.
When added up the amount of time spent on failed connection attempts is
miniscule and not worth bothering about. True, my devices send an
explicit reset so I don't have to wait 30 seconds every time because
port 23 went to some bit bucket in the sky :-) Not every network is set
up like mine though.

On 24/03/2014 10:23, Josten, Michael wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> instead of using
> 
>  
> 
> add method * {telnet} {ssh}
> 
>  
> 
> I want to speed up everything by avoiding failed telnet login attempts
> on switches that are accessed via ssh as long as
> 
> We haven’t configured every switch to ssh access only.
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way to configure ip address ranges as this
> example looks kinda bloated
> 
>  
> 
> add method x.x.x.1 {ssh:10022}
> 
> add method x.x.x.2 {telnet}
> 
> add method x.x.x.3 {telnet}
> 
> add method x.x.x.4 {telnet}
> 
> add method x.x.x.5 {telnet}
> 
> add method x.x.x.6 {telnet}
> 
> add method x.x.x.8 {ssh:22}
> 
> add method * {telnet} {ssh}
> 
>  
> 
> best regards
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
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Alan McKinnon
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