rancid

Availability and IPv6 support

Name	IPv6 support	Supported operating systems
rancid	included	Unix, Linux, *BSD

Description

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) is a tool written in perl and it is a configuration management tool for Cisco routers and Catalyst switches, as well as equipment from Alteon, Bay Networks, Extreme, Force 10 Networks, Foundry, HP, Juniper and Redback. It works by periodically connecting to devices by means of telnet, SSH, or rlogin and recording the configuration. Any differences are flagged using diff and emailed to network operator and saved in CVS. With CVS, changes over time in these configurations can be tracked. There are various frontends to watch these changes conveniently (e.g."cvsweb" or"viewcvs").

Comments

Rancid itself is not aware of IPv6, but it uses external programs It is relying on the telnet, ssh or rlogin tools of host operating system to login and obtain configuration information.. If these remote access programs are IPv6-capable one can use IPv6 addresses and transport

Tested and user in 6NET project.

Usage information

Source of information

http://www.6net.org