[rancid] GRE & Rancid

[Todd Heide]

Looks like I discovered a little hiccup with Rancid backing ASA's where
GRE tunnels pass through. We have one customer with remote locations
that GRE into a router behind the ASA over a 1:1 static mapping. On the
13th minute of every hour, the remote users were experiencing QOS issues
with their IP phones. Turns out Rancid ran at exactly that time to the
ASA. I set the ASA to down state in Rancid and the problem went away.
Curious as to what Rancid is doing to cause this hiccup?



Thanks

Todd



Nothing ever goes as planned, Its a hell of a notion,

Even pharaohs turn to sand, Like a drop in the ocean

[Sam Munzani]

Todd,

Rancid runs "show running" command which generates the running
configuration real time from the device. May be ASA has a bug related to
"show run" command. Do it manually to confirm. Run that command manually
and see if it makes difference.

Lately I am running more and more in to situations where people don't
like to give enable password to rancid. Instead of that, they usually
allow all show commands to rancid via setting up rancid account at priv
5 or something and allowing priv-5 to run all show commands. When that
happens you can't run "show run" command but you can do "show config".
In few of my recent rancid deployments, I ended up substituting "show
run" command with "show config" in bin/rancid file's commands section.
If your issue is related to "show run" commands, you can do the same.

Hope this helps,
Sam

Post by Todd Heide
Looks like I discovered a little hiccup with Rancid backing ASA's
where GRE tunnels pass through. We have one customer with remote
locations that GRE into a router behind the ASA over a 1:1 static
mapping. On the 13^th minute of every hour, the remote users were
experiencing QOS issues with their IP phones. Turns out Rancid ran at
exactly that time to the ASA. I set the ASA to down state in Rancid
and the problem went away. Curious as to what Rancid is doing to cause
this hiccup?
/*/Thanks/*/
Todd
Nothing ever goes as planned, Its a hell of a notion,
Even pharaohs turn to sand, Like a drop in the ocean
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