[25040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a different view of SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Sep 5 00:39:34 1999
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:38:02 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, rbuchals@hotmail.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ron Buchalski <rbuchals@hotmail.com> wrote:
>From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
>>I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already
>>taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their
>>almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management.
>Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_? :-)
Nah, that's because Cisco sometimes listens. And, yes, lets the
lowly users to talk to their actual engieers. Or at least used
to.
(Hint - try to find who wrote some particular piece of code in Nortel).
--vadim
