[rancid] Reverse RANCID

[heasley]

Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 07:58:38PM -0500, Tony Tauber:
> You might also want to see a presentation on automation
> <https://www.nanog.org/meetings/abstract?id=2477> from NANOG63 just last
> week.
> This discusses using the NETCONF notion of a candidate config to do the
> syntax validation.

junos and XR VMs exist for this too and theyre cheap.  this isnt the forum
for it, but if anyone figures-out how to make the bloody things work on
ESXi, please school me.  rumor is that the current XR VM, of a few weeks
ago, works on ESXi.