Always been CLI first myself. Too darned efficient once you get any depth. But I like vi too so take that with a grain of salt. One thing of note is security. I have always felt that one of the best security commands on network gear is "no ip http server". Old unix instructor I had always beat it into our head if you don't use it every day remove it. Every added service/component is one more avenue into your system and another potential failure point. If in the case of closed source you cant fully remove it then at least disable it. On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM brent saner via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 15:06 Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Hi NANOG community,
I posed this question in several chat groups, but I'd like to get your opinions.
Do you love the CLI? Do you hate the CLI? Would you -- or do you already -- enjoy a world where you never need to touch the CLI, to manage your network?
This applies to both provisioning and troubleshooting; to which, you may have different answers.
So far, I've seen a variety of replies around the usual "should/must/must not/should not".
Warm regards,
*NIX sysops (not netops) lurker here.
I'm not surprised to see so many prefer a CLI over a GUI, and have many of the same reasons for the same preference myself in my scope of duties.
But I'm dying to know, for those in here that are *also* proficient in sh/bash/ksh/csh/zsh/whatever...
Sucker for bash here. Coworker always tried to talk me into using zsh. He was an old Solaris pro. I'm just too lazy for that. Though his setup with vi incorporated was pretty slick.
Is it just familiarity bias on my part or is net kit shell command syntax just kind of _terrible_? It seems like it's mostly/all (depending on vendor) just subcommand after subcommand and positional arguments (which of course you can't visually parse as distinct from each other). Y'all's Tab keycaps must be worn through. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list
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