Is there any chance that your coworker has posted that code on the
internet, somewhere?  :)

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Devin Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Unfortunately this is a long standing issue... It has to do with Cisco's SSH 
> implementation.
>
> http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko/2008-June/000728.html
>
> I believe one of my coworkers has whipped up an expect-like wrapper using the 
> lower level API. I think he invokes a shell and then uses .send() and .recv() 
> on it.
>
> -Devin
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Swarbrick [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:38 PM
> To: Nathan Farrar
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [paramiko] Executing multiple commands within a single connection
>
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:53 -0600, Nathan Farrar wrote:
>> I'm using paramiko to manage cisco devices remotely.  It works
>> beautifully when I have a script open a connection to a device,
>> execute a command, then close the connection.  However, if I connect
>> and then attempt to execute a command, and then a second command, an
>> error is thrown.
>>
>> If I comment out the second client.exec_command() line, there are no
>> problems.  Any tips to get this to work correctly?
>>
>
> It's not a Paramiko issue... I discovered the same thing a while back,
> when talking to Cisco devices. It appears that their SSH implementation
> closes the whole connection after the first command, instead of just
> closing that one channel.
>
> Unless you approach it quite differently (use a pty), your only real
> option is to reconnect for each command you want to execute.
>
>
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