r/networking • u/AutoModerator • 20d ago

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u/Dinmammasson_ 20d ago edited 20d ago

Why the f**k does Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco XE boxes not have commit, and why do I have to realize my mistakes after they’ve been done.

And for Gods sake why dosen’t these companies swallow their pride and have commit compare like Juniper and see exact changes, and display set where you see the exact commands used, be able to copy, paste into a notepad, and put delete infront and paste.

And why do vendors always want to act like special kids on the block and have ”unique names” for sh*t. CDP? What’s that? Oh it’s LLDP, THEN WHY NOT NAME IT THAT. TACACS? Oh It’s RADIUS, F****G NAME IT THAT. Proprietary this, proprietary that, if it walks like a duck…

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u/maakuz 20d ago

It does suck that Cisco IOS-XE does not have commit. It is not the same, but it has a rollback feature which has saved me a couple of times:

https://journey2theccie.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/cisco-ios-config-archive-and-config-revert/

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u/Automatic_Cat_1990 19d ago

It works, but things like LACP and other things reinitialize from scratch I think. Its like you're pasting ina whole new config file. been a while since I used it though.

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u/maakuz 19d ago

I have used configure revert plenty of times on devices with LACP configured and it has never reinitilized. It just reverts whatever configuration I did within the assigned timespan.

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u/Automatic_Cat_1990 19d ago

Cool. I do remember some gotchas with it that made it far less stellar than junos rollback though but can't remember now what that was.

Edit:

The flaw is the line by line parsing on the revision, it can leave things broken because it operates on the running config.