Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Aaron == Aaron dudep...@gmail.com writes: So, how would you propose that the system know that you are looking for an IPV6 config vs something else like a description or named acl/tunnel/etc? context. e.g. sh run | i nei.*2001:whatever ^ similar things work for

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Brandon Daly
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard Sent: 05 January 2011 18:32 To: Brandon Applegate Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ? On 05/01/2011 16:01, Brandon Applegate wrote: Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Phil Mayers
On 06/01/11 11:58, Brandon Daly wrote: Have you read the Errata for RFC5952? I'm fairly certain it now says that the digits a-f must be uppercase, except where user derived, though I think this is a fairly recent correction. That's an absolutely terrible errata: old-skool assemblers didn't

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread sthaug
Have you read the Errata for RFC5952? I'm fairly certain it now says that the digits a-f must be uppercase, except where user derived, though I think this is a fairly recent correction. That's an absolutely terrible errata: old-skool assemblers didn't accept lower-case hex digits,

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Morn' guys (and happy 2011 etc.) ja...@puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch) wrote: 3) You may be able to get something closer to this with the following: Router#sh run partition XXX Doesn't really get you where you want to go. I guess a very good thing'd be if the include were case insensitive. Now

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Phil Mayers
On 06/01/11 14:14, Elmar K. Bins wrote: Doesn't really get you where you want to go. I guess a very good thing'd be if the include were case insensitive. Well, it's a regexp so: sh blah | inc 2001:[aA]0: ...will work ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, Well, it's a regexp so: sh blah | inc 2001:[aA]0: yep - was going to point this out - shame you cant do nice extended stuff with eg /ff/i etc original poster can have joy with show run | inc 2607:[a-fA-F][a-fA-F]70 alan ___ cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Phil, p.may...@imperial.ac.uk (Phil Mayers) wrote: Well, it's a regexp so: sh blah | inc 2001:[aA]0: ...will work Although cumbersome, thanks for the hint, nonetheless. Modifiers to the regexp would of course be much easier... Elmar. pgp2igtQsUIe4.pgp Description: PGP signature

[c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Brandon Applegate
Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters in config ? We can type them in either case and it's understood. Why convert to upper when writing config ? At issue is when I do 'show run | inc 2607:ff70' and get nothing I scratch my head for a second. Then I try

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Sascha Pollok
Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters in config ? [...] At issue is when I do 'show run | inc 2607:ff70' and get nothing I scratch my head for a second. Then I try 'show run | inc 2607:FF70' and get what I expected. This seems inefficent, error-prone, and

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Jared Mauch
A few things: On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Sascha Pollok wrote: Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters in config ? [...] At issue is when I do 'show run | inc 2607:ff70' and get nothing I scratch my head for a second. Then I try 'show run | inc 2607:FF70'

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 05/01/2011 16:01, Brandon Applegate wrote: Is there a reason that ipv6 addresses are stored with uppercase letters in config ? yes. See rfc4291, section 2.2, where all of the examples are in upper case. These examples caused people to prefer upper case notation for ipv6 address

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Aaron
So, how would you propose that the system know that you are looking for an IPV6 config vs something else like a description or named acl/tunnel/etc? On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 13:31, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 05/01/2011 16:01, Brandon Applegate wrote: Is there a reason that ipv6

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Brandon Applegate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Aaron wrote: So, how would you propose that the system know that you are looking for an IPV6 config vs something else like a description or named acl/tunnel/etc? Yeah I thought of that but failed to mention it. In short, one wouldn't put the (impossible ?) burden on

Re: [c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

2011-01-05 Thread Pete Lumbis
Let's just hope that this isn't one of those well, it was broken when we first did it, and it's always been that way, so we aren't going to change it. e.g, port numbers in hex in show ip cache flow. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Brandon Applegate bran...@burn.net wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011,