[rancid] Netgear switches in 2023 (or 2024)

[heasley]

Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:00:08PM +0000, on at LEFerguson.com:
> I have several clients for whom I use rancid and they are all cisco.
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> I have one who had a horrible mixture of D-Link, Cisco, Netgear, etc.  Over years I modified, kludged, hacked and re-kludged rancid trying to make it workable.
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> I'd like to bring them up to date, and honestly between legit changes from upstream and my mess I just want to start over.  Also, they got rid of the 'etc' and D-Link and now just have half Netgear and half Cisco.  The Netgear allows SSH and does a semi-similar show to ciscos, just... different.
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> In some brief consultation with Google I found little, stumbled on where I had asked about this 6 years or so ago.
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> Does anyone have workable configs for modern netgear stuff (the ones with real configs and current firmware, not all the home stuff)?   My priority is that it not include changes that preclude easy upgrade of rancid, otherwise I'm going to tell them to stay on the old, or not do change control on Netgear.
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> I just did a clean install on my home system, and I see nothing new in that regard, though more robust filters, etc. might actually make it practical with a different vendor's name.

I do not have any netgear devices.  I'd make it work if I had one and I do
need a 802.3bt switch; the (bloody expensive) M4250 supports ssh, but the
docs talk more about the web intf than cli and it is not clear what is
possible in the cli.  If a model supports ssh, does it support
configuration via the cli?

Also, depending on what changes you made to the previous version, it might
be possible to just use the module you changed as a different device type.