At 5:58 PM +0000 11/25/02, John Tafasi wrote: >This a nice answer, but do you know any book that specifically deal with >programming for network engineers?
Again, depends on your definition of network engineer, but John Moy's second book goes through the programming of a public domain OSPF implementation. That's pretty network-ish. There's a lot of material on the Internet, primarily aimed at service providers. Check through www.nanog.org, www.radb.net, www.ripe.net, and the NANOG mailing list. For statistical analysis, www.caida.org is a good starting place. Apropos of not much, I once wrote a complete analyzer for IBM NCP configurations. I used Pascal. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Moffett, Ryan" >To: "'John Tafasi'" ; >Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:20 AM >Subject: RE: Programming Language for Network Engingeers. [7:58032] > > >> Perl - Use it to do many things like parsing log files, parsing and even >> generating config files. Too many uses to list. Once you learn what >perl >> is and what it can do, you WILL find uses for it. >> >> Expect - Use it to script things that otherwise would only be able to >occur >> interactively with network devices, such as Telnet to a router, log on, >dump >> the config to a tftp server. Or, create an expect script to log on to a >> router, copy tftp image to flash and reload, then set this to run via a >cron >> job for an unattended router upgrade (yes, that is risky but some people >can >> get away with it :-). >> >> If you run both on unix/linux, learn bash or whatever shell you plan on >> using because you will find many useful functions built into the shell. >> >> It isn't unrealistic to setup a generic unix/linux system with Perl, >Expect >> and a TFTP server to to manage all of your device configs, images and >> logfiles. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Tafasi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:28 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Programming Language for Network Engingeers. [7:58032] >> >> >> What programming languages a network engineer MIGHT need to perform his >job? >> >> What do network engineers or adminiastrators do with a programming >language? >> please elaborate >> >> I am looking to learn a couple of programming language that I may need on >> the job and I need you advice. >> >> Thanks Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=58056&t=58032 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
