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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: a different view of SNMP
Hello vadim, On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote: > Ron Buchalski <[email protected]> wrote: > >From: [email protected] (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 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | [email protected] | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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