[25041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a different view of SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bandregg@redhat.com)
Sun Sep 5 09:40:23 1999
To: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Sep 1999 19:49:14 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 09:46:43 -0400
From: bandregg@redhat.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 19:49:14 PDT, "Ron Buchalski" wrote:
>>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.
>>Sure, they did leave a wide market niche for third party font-end tools
>>that actually worked, but at least they embraced the standards! :-)
>>
>
>Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_? :-)
Or that you don't have to use that piece of crap called Configuration Mangler
to deal with the thing and then pay for upgrades to a version of configuration
software that doesn't leave the equipment in a bad state.
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Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat, Inc.
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