[146875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network device command line interfaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aftab Siddiqui)
Thu Nov 24 00:05:26 2011
In-Reply-To: <EA43F3C127260242916718667C11BAAA039D3B@WINEXP12.internal.local>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:04:30 +0500
From: Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com>
To: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> However vendors of low cost routers/switches/muxes seem to take a stab in
> the dark and produce some really nasty stuff. I have a personal hate of
> text based menus and binary config backup files.
>
Not necessarily it has to be cheap to have text based menus and binary
config backups, it can be damn expensive... mmmm remember Alcatel PSAX even
their old PABX series..
In our recent encounters with real cheap stuff (switches m routers) the CLI
is so much friendly :).
Regards,
Aftab A. Siddiqui
