[146932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network device command line interfaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Nov 28 13:49:59 2011
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:25:21 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:47:19 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:25:21 EST, Ray Soucy said:
> Even companies like Vyatta have invested time in a Web UI rather than
> expanding the core functionality offered (multicast routing support, for
> example), which doesn't seem like the best idea.
Compare the number of customers that insist on a web-gui interface
to the number of customers that are insisting on multicast routing
support.
(Having said that, a sane CLI provides a good basis for a web interface, so
is good engineering whether or not you need multicast ;)
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