Pascal was great. ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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
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