[25043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a different view of SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Sun Sep 5 13:33:23 1999
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199909050438.VAA30984@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello vadim,
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> 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).
Yes the trouble is trying to find that individual . (IE
they nolonger work there :-{) And the next individual most
familiar with that code area has their own ideas one what
it should be doing which is at least 90-Degree's to what
the original coder had in mind .
That aside I was highly impressed with their use of the MIB's
as command line setable variables . But WOW try typing one
of the longer ones just once & find you mis-typed it .
They never have gotten a command line editor right :-{ JimL
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