[rancid] RANCID is incorrectly parsing my Cisco IOS Firewall, adding linebreaks, joining lines, etc

[Lee]

On 9/16/14, Per-Olof Olsson <peo at chalmers.se> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Have seen diffs like this when vtp trunks change up/down state.

Doesn't need to be vtp.  We have lots of blade servers & their switch
ports are configured as trunks (_without_ vlan 1 on the trunk).  When
the server people move the blade to another slot, shut the server
down, etc. the switch port goes down & a "show vlan" says the port is
on vlan 1 :(

Lee


> Formating is done by IOS  for "show vlan", so it will be hard to fix splited
> lines in rancid.
> You are not alone to dislike diffs like this.
> In many IOS versions it posible turn of all line wrapping by setting
> "terminal length 0".
> I think it's one way of make diffs from "show vlan" more readable.
>
>
>
> Jason Humes wrote 2014-09-12 22:10:
>> Here is an example;
>>
>> Index: configs/ core4506
>> ===================================================================
>> - -- configs/ core4506	(revision 198)
>> @@ -446,9 +446,9 @@
>>    !VLAN:                                                 Fa2/6, Fa2/7,
>> Fa2/8, Fa2/10, Fa2/11, Fa2/13, Fa2/14, Fa2/15, Fa2/16, Fa2/17, Fa2/19
>>    !VLAN:                                                 Fa2/20, Fa2/22,
>> Fa2/23, Fa2/24, Fa2/29, Fa2/32, Fa2/33, Fa2/34, Fa2/40, Fa2/41
>>    !VLAN:                                                 Fa2/42, Fa2/43,
>> Fa2/44, Fa2/45, Fa2/46, Fa2/47, Fa2/48, Te3/1, Te3/2, Gi3/3, Gi3/4
>> - !VLAN:                                                 Gi3/5, Gi3/6,
>> Te4/1, Te4/2, Gi4/3, Gi4/4, Gi4/5, Gi4/6, Gi5/34, Gi6/5, Gi6/15
>> - !VLAN:                                                 Gi6/18, Gi6/19,
>> Gi6/20, Gi6/22, Gi6/23, Gi6/24, Gi6/28, Gi6/34, Gi6/35, Gi6/36
>> - !VLAN:                                                 Gi6/37, Gi6/38,
>> Gi6/39, Gi7/7, Gi7/8, Gi7/9, Gi7/10, Gi7/11, Gi7/12
>> + !VLAN:                                                 Gi3/5, Gi3/6,
>> Te4/1, Te4/2, Gi4/3, Gi4/4, Gi4/5, Gi4/6, Gi5/14, Gi5/34, Gi6/5
>> + !VLAN:                                                 Gi6/15, Gi6/18,
>> Gi6/19, Gi6/20, Gi6/22, Gi6/23, Gi6/24, Gi6/28, Gi6/34, Gi6/35
>> + !VLAN:                                                 Gi6/36, Gi6/37,
>> Gi6/38, Gi6/39, Gi7/7, Gi7/8, Gi7/9, Gi7/10, Gi7/11, Gi7/12
>>    !VLAN: 2    Engineering                      active    Fa1/29, Fa1/32,
>> Fa1/35, Fa1/44, Fa1/45, Fa1/47, Fa2/18, Gi5/15, Gi5/33, Gi6/32
>>    !VLAN:                                                 Gi6/40
>>    !VLAN: 3    EDM                              active
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Humes
>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 3:06 PM
>> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>> Subject: RANCID is incorrectly parsing my Cisco IOS Firewall, adding
>> linebreaks, joining lines, etc
>>
>> Hi
>> Recently upgraded to RANCID 3.1 and I'm finding all our Cisco devices are
>> coming up with new configs after every run due to rancid adding line
>> breaks in some cases and in others it joins two lines of the config.
>>
>> Any thoughts on why this might be going on?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
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