Re: Lab configuration script and service config

Not sure you grasp what the issue is.
The "write memory" will take 5 seconds, but the reload on a 2811 takes 5
minutes. And Aaron recipe was write memory plus reload.

The whole issue is to set a router (in a lab environment) to a known
state (i.e. a presaved configuration) from an unknown state in the least
time. This has to be done every time you want to set up a lab.

The steps I was doing were:
1- write erase + reload (takes you to a known state)
2- conf t + load config

and in doing step 2, service config was getting in the way.

Now, I'm doing an xmodem transfer to flash (via console, which is the
only communication I have, or else I have to setup some connectivity
to a tftp server, and that involves configuring more devices), then
copy to startup and then a reload. Only one reload cycle, which is
AFAIK, the optimum.

-Carlos

Shaughn Smith @ 23/08/2011 13:58 -0300 dixit:
> Not sure you grasp what write memory is. It will take literally a couple of seconds and same your config changes to the startup config. Not sure where xmodem comes into this
>
> CCIE # 23962 (SP)
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> Sent from my iPhone 4
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> On 23 Aug 2011, at 12:11 PM, Carlos G Mendioroz <tron_at_huapi.ba.ar> wrote:
>
>> That is way too costly on a 2811, 5 minutes!
>> What I saw yesterday is "service config" in the running config
>> some 2 minutes after the script put a "no service config" in
>> there. Nuts.
>>
>> I guess I'm changing the approach, I will be writing to the startup
>> config and then reload with the final config in. I dropped that
>> because 2800s do not support copy from xmodem to startup, but
>> I will be writing to flash and then copy from flash to startup.
>>
>> -Carlos
>>
>> Aaron Riemer @ 23/08/2011 01:06 -0300 dixit:
>>> Hi Carlos,
>>> I believe you need to write memory and reload for the messages to go away.
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Aaron.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Carlos G Mendioroz
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 4:10 AM
>>> To: Cisco certification
>>> Subject: Lab configuration script and service config
>>> Hi,
>>> has anybody seen "service config" reappearing by itself ?
>>> I'm trying to solve an issue where a script that is applying
>>> configuration to a router gets confused because of interleaved
>>> "%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/HQ-2-confg (Timed out)"
>>> messages.
>>> I'm doing "no service config" and "no logging console" right away,
>>> but the messages keep showing up.
>>> Any clues ?
>>> -Carlos
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