[rancid] rancid support for Brocade Fabric OS

[Jason Biel]

I have Brocade VDXs and TurboIrons I can assist with.

(I suggested in another thread about moving rancid to GitHub for
reasons just like this. Would allow for collaboration in a much easier
manner.)

> On Jan 27, 2016, at 18:48, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
>
> Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:05:46AM +0000, Howard Jones:
>>> On 27/01/2016 07:27, heasley wrote:
>>> Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:31:21PM +0000, David Ahrens:
>>>> Does Rancid work with Brocade switches?
>>> another device that I do not have.  others have said that brocades may work
>>> as foundry or cisco.  test it.
>>
>> I have a custom device type 'fabricos' that uses 'brocaderancid'. I
>> don't know where I got it from though.
>>
>> It looks like it came from this mailing list:
>> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2011-January/005441.html
>>
>> Except my copy uses clogin and not a separate brocadelogin script.
>>
>> These guys have integrated a version of brocaderancid (using clogin)
>> into their rancid 2.x fork:
>> https://github.com/dotwaffle/rancid-git/blob/master/bin/brocaderancid.in
>
> I really do not know brocade from my elbow.  But, importing scripts that I
> can not test myself is potential for a lot of support grief for *me* - and
> a few generous ML contributors.  I feel far more comfortable when a number
> of folks write on the ML that they use script R on V,V1,etc with login
> script L and its been reliable for N months - and I'm willing to test the
> import or give you remote access to one to do so.
>
> Who vouches for what scripts with what flavors of Brocade?
>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> (the former Foundry range of *Iron devices is a whole other ball of wax
>> more like Cisco)
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