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Re: Foundry CLI manual?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?=)
Sat Jan 23 15:25:58 2010
From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:28 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87iqassk44.fsf@laphroiag.quux.de> (Jens Link's message of "Sat,
23 Jan 2010 20:21:15 +0100")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> writes:
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
>
>> Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login,
>> but the list of manuals is not.=20
>
> Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or
> require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the
> documentation.
Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract.
I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds
or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally
doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal
search engines are usually a bad joke at best.
Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several
years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe?
Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No
useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother
putting up a web server.
I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and
Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys!
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