[rancid] hlogin timing out

Thu Jun 11 18:26:10 UTC 2015

Jim, I don’t have much insight aside from passing the –d flag to hlogin which will give you a lot of debugging.

My reason for replying is just to let you know that we are successfully backing up HP 2600-8, 2626, and 2650 switches, and with much older firmware revisions on some of them (e.g. H.10.31.) We’re running rancid 3.1, and have not seen any issues with timeouts like this.

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Michael Newton
Director, Product Development
Point of Presence Technologies

From:  Rancid-discuss on behalf of Jim P
Date:  Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:49 AM
To:  "rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net"
Subject:  [rancid] hlogin timing out

I have narrowed down my recent issues to that I really believe I'm having an HP specific issue. Its driving me bonkers and I hope I'm not doing the same for the mailing list.

trying to run this off of a test HP 2650

When I run this:

./clogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
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[rancid at localhost bin]$ ./clogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99
10.10.0.99
spawn telnet 10.10.0.99
Trying 10.10.0.99...
Connected to 10.10.0.99.
Escape character is '^]'.
ProCurve J4899B Switch 2650
Software revision H.10.115
Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Hewlett-Packard Co.  All Rights Reserved.

                           RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND

 Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
 as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
 Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.

         HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303

Press any key to continue
Password:

TEST-SWITCH99#
TEST-SWITCH99# terminal length 0
Invalid input: 0
TEST-SWITCH99#
Error: TIMEOUT reached
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it does much better than if I do the following (which just sort of locks up the screen)

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./hlogin -c "show ver" 10.10.0.99

10.10.0.99
spawn hpuifilter -- telnet 10.10.0.99
Trying 10.10.0.99...
Connected to 10.10.0.99.
Escape character is '^]'.
ProCurve J4899B Switch 2650
Software revision H.10.115

                           RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND

 Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
 as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
 Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.

         HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303

Press any key to continuePassword:
TEST-SWITCH99# --> (IT HANGS HERE until it eventually times out)
Error: TIMEOUT reached
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