Not that it helps much, but I got you covered for most of the RouterOS
stuff. I have a perl class that uses expect to interface with the
command line interface for RouterOS.
I know it doesn't quite fit into your pocket and they only work with
cingular (for cell service) but the sony vaio UX's are pretty cool.
I've used one a couple of times and the keyboards are really nice
considering the form factor and the screens are good. They are pretty
pricey though!
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
David E. Smith wrote:
Matt Liotta wrote:
It would appear you are making incorrect assumptions. Why would it
cost a lot of money? A programmer can be hired on the cheap and the
amount of work you need is small. If it cost you more than a few
hundred dollars you are over paying.
The original assumption was that "replacing my whole network" was
where you were going with your statement, and I apologize for that
misinterpretation. Not that your actual suggestion of "write a bunch
of Web interfaces" is that much better...
(ooh, it's some off-topic bait! looks yummy!)
Something that can remotely log into an SSH system, screen-scrape, let
me edit its configuration files (which are all in a weird proprietary
text editor), and basically replicate everything you can do with SSH?
That's more than a few hours' work. (At least it would be for me, but
my programming experience is more Web-focused than working with
terminal/curses stuff.)
Oh, and multiply that by several times, as I have several different
systems for which I'd need similar interfaces. I'd need one for Trango
(yes, they have a built-in Web interface but it stinks out loud),
Alvarion (BreezeConfig is nice, but it's Windows-only), Mikrotik
RouterOS (the Web interface is okay but there's a lot of stuff you
can't easily do with it), and so on and so on.
Meanwhile, all of these things already have a nice way of twiddling
their knobs remotely: their respective telnet and SSH interfaces.
I respect that you're trying to make other suggestions, and I
appreciate it. This particular idea, however, is a bit of a non-starter.
David Smith
MVN.net
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