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I know, but - if you support doc's, you can support simple config analyser/helper out of IOS. And, btw, what's absent in IOS config is _CONFIG COLORING_ - it would be pretty if I could color any piece of config to it's uniq color and use command like _unload config RED_ -:)... > is (or should be). It read it in and it can write it back out. It is > that internal data structure, as complex and messy as it probably is, > having parts of the data scattered in so many modules, that really could > represent the delta. Perhaps the only reliable way to do this is to do > it inside IOS itself. With a new semantic of a config load that would > mean "replace the old config entirely with this config" (as opposed to It's difficult to _REPLACE ALL CONFIG_ because it means you should restart a lot of internal programs, but (for example) replace colored part - why not? > the existing semantic "merge this config with the old config") and the > IOS would do the right thing, this might work. It would be a little bit > more black magic, but it would beat having to keep two different IOS > config interpreters in sync (the real IOS and the external tools). > > > > This tool can never tell if the real network will work > > I don't think this problem will ever be truly solved by any means other > than the ones we use now (check it the best you can, have a fallback > plan, and go for it at a time of least disruption). > > -- > -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- > -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- > -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- > -- *-----------------------------* philh at intur.net * -- > Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow (+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 239-10-10, N 13729 (pager) (+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax)
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