Randy Bush wrote:
of all these cute GUI products, which understands configs used by real ISPs on real routers with current ISP images? when last i looked, the answer was the null set.
I can believe that. I've rarely seen any "fancy GUI" software package for anything that had some real guts under the hood. I'm planning to put together my own system to build configs from our customer database (and other stuff). Since it would be a constructed config, once the code is debugged, I'd tend to trust it (as opposed to a config manually edited each time). So I would not need something that merely checks the config for errors. Now what I could use, is a program (Unix based) that will do the reload of the configuration smartly, correctly undoing anything that is not in the new config, such as deleting old static routes, can make the config go in service without disruptions (reset lines that change, but do not reset those that do not change, for example), and also save and verify the saved config. This program would have to know how to get the existing config and compare the configs to apply the differences. Additional smarts like knowing not to leave itself without a valid static route (e.g. add new one before deleting old one) would be great. A "verify only" mode that simply tells me what would need to be done to make a new config be in service would also be great. GUI just gets in the way of real work. -- -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- -- *-----------------------------* philh at intur.net * --