Randy, At 05:40 PM 2/19/2002, Randy Bush wrote: >there are isps where a human never types at a router (except to debug) and >all configuration is programatically generated from enterprise and customer >data entered by folk from sales to provisioning to address admin through >sexy gui interfaces. the canonic configuration is the data in the data- >base, and the classic phrase "the network is the data-base of record" is >anathema.
Interesting. Does this apply to both edge routers near the customer and the backbone-peering routers? Are these tools commercial products or are they developed by each isp? >these configuration generation systems have 'back ends' (excuse the compiler >term) for many vendors' so-called configuration languages, and the router >brand, model, and sw version are but more parameters in the data-base. To bring this back to the thread, do you think there is a need for a protocol here or are the current solutions adequate? It must be fun to keep these tools in sync with sw releases, differences in vendor capabilities, etc. Bob -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
