Hi Ytti, >> Pushing thousands of lines via CLI/expect automation is def not a great >> idea, no. Putting everything into a file, copying that to the device, and >> loading from there is generally best regardless. The slowness you refer to >> is almost certainly just because of how XR handles config application. If >> I'm following correctly, that seems to be the crux of your question. > > If you read carefully, that is what Steffann is doing. He is doing > 'load location:file' + 'commit'. He is not punching anything by hand. > > So the answer we are looking for is how to make that go faster. > > In Junos answer would be 'ephemeral config', but in IOS-XR as far as I > know, the only thing you can do is improve the 'load' part by moving > the server closer, other than that, you get what you get.
Perfect answer :) Not what I was hoping to hear, but if that’s what it is, then that’s what it is. Cheers! Sander