Kirk Byers

@waleedqq The SSH timeout is probably the idle timeout of your remote network devices (or of any intermediate firewalls including potentially a host firewall). I don't think Netmiko/Parmiko would time...

@namiles A context manager wouldn't help with the timeout--it would automatically clean things up if there was a failure, but it wouldn't help prevent a failure.

Main options are: 1. Get rid of the extra long banner that requires a keypress. 2. Use the `generic` driver and handle the extra items and then use `redispatch` to...

@atomus1990 @yzguy This probably is fixed here (Netmiko 4.2.0) https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/pull/3156 @yzguy Are you still seeing problems in Netmiko 4.2.0?

@yzguy Okay, so if I am reading that right...it sounds like a napalm-vyos issue and not a Netmiko issue. Is that correct?

@Hyperion60 Are you still interested/willing to work on this issue?

@Hyperion60 Can you run Netmiko config and show test suite against a FortiAnalyzer device using this code. The test process is here. https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/blob/develop/TESTING.md @dpinyol Does the `FortiAuthenticator` work with the...

@Hyperion60 Let me know if you can post the Netmiko test output into this PR: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/blob/develop/TESTING.md

PR is unfortunately no longer active...so closing.

We should also add a test case for this into our IOS-XR tests. I am probably only testing the normal case where there are no other pending commits (I am...