Judging from recent events in chapter 11 filings and general BGP weirdnesses I'd say there was already a game in progress! :) Steve On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, James Smith wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Daniska Tomas [mailto:tomas@tronet.com] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:37 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: What's wrong with provisioning tools?

i was more interested in something emulating a vt100 that one could eventually plug to a console port and chat with the box...

<plug in voice enabled terminal to router> Router, show config

GOOD MORNING DR. FALKEN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR BGP?

Sorry, I couldn't resist. But should have...

James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE Professional Services - Network Engineer The Presidio Corporation