Compression Algo used in CAT4k "service compress-config" ??

[dshakya]

Hi,

ne inputs which algo being used in cat4k's "service compress-config"

Cat4k switch doesn?t support disabling of ?service compress-config?. This inherently causes different in ?startup-config? file size copied to some tftp location.

ifs45c-1#copy start tftp:

Address or name of remote host []? 223.255.241.18

Destination filename [ifs45c-1-confg]? aaa

Uncompressed configuration from 1150 bytes to 2525 bytes!! ?

2525 bytes copied in 0.020 secs (126250 bytes/sec)

ifs45c-1#

I am looking for the algorithm that is been used for the same as I need to verify, if file is copied (uncompressed) properly or not. Can you please let me know? Is it specific to the platform used?

Regards,

Deepak.

[Gilles Dufour]

Deepak,

you're on the wrong forum. We do not cover IOS here.

Moreover, as a Cisco employee you should probably try to get this info internally.

I could locate the config_compress function but it does not clearly say what kind of algorithm is being used. However, I feel like this is just some sort of ZIP function.

I do not know why you want to verify is copied properly. If the 'sho start' command shows a config, this means it was correctly uncompressed.

Gilles.