Helo Bryan , On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 bandregg@redhat.com wrote:
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 19:49:14 PDT, "Ron Buchalski" wrote:
I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management. Sure, they did leave a wide market niche for third party font-end tools that actually worked, but at least they embraced the standards! :-)
Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_? :-)
Or that you don't have to use that piece of crap called Configuration Mangler to deal with the thing and then pay for upgrades to a version of configuration software that doesn't leave the equipment in a bad state.
Now that Nortel is in charge that is the case 'pay pay pay' When I worked at NWRain.net we had a BLN in use . When it was put into service the way to get SMxxx was to just ftp to their site & grab the latest 'production' version . If you had a Maint. Contract just call & ask for the lastest service group patched version ... that of course was before Nortel started providing 'Improved' services to it customers . Jusy My ~.03 worth , JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+