Jon Peatfield
2011-03-29 12:43:27 UTC
Yesterday while trying to disagnose a problem with a user not being able
to use one port on a switch I noticed that the port in question had
managed to get into the err-disabled state.
As I'd rather not have to wait for users to complain I've written a
trivial patch to get rancid to run (for Cisco only):
show interfaces status err-disabled
which only generates output if ports are in the err-disabled state, and
lists the reason for each port.
The lines (if any) are added as comments with the prefix SISED as it made
sense at the time.
Anyway I thought that this might possibly be of use to others.
This patch probably won't cleanly apply for others since the diff was
generated after applying a patch to add 'show cdp neighbors detail' to the
list of commands, so if anyone needs a patch against the clean 2.3.6 let
me know...
to use one port on a switch I noticed that the port in question had
managed to get into the err-disabled state.
As I'd rather not have to wait for users to complain I've written a
trivial patch to get rancid to run (for Cisco only):
show interfaces status err-disabled
which only generates output if ports are in the err-disabled state, and
lists the reason for each port.
The lines (if any) are added as comments with the prefix SISED as it made
sense at the time.
Anyway I thought that this might possibly be of use to others.
This patch probably won't cleanly apply for others since the diff was
generated after applying a patch to add 'show cdp neighbors detail' to the
list of commands, so if anyone needs a patch against the clean 2.3.6 let
me know...
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