Re: low bandwith requirement ?

[Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>]

> > why is an in-band interface different from an oob interface?  or
> > should i better ask, in what ways which are significant to
> > configuration do they differ?
> Bandwith ?  My origianl question (in this thread) was and is do we
> need to consider/explicity state a requiremnt that this work over
> low bandwith ?  In the DoS scenerio, you may only have a
> dialup connection to manage/recover the device.   You can't
> do screen repaints or other large data transfers quickly.
> I think "works over low bandwith connections" should
> be an explicit requirement for device management.
xmlconf does not do screen repaints (or anything similar) over
the communication channel -- it is an RPC-based mechanism.

If you do complete config dumps or restores on a box that
contains a large amount of configuration data, this might
result in large data transfers.  But, you could avoid that
by only configuring or checking small subsets of the
configuration data.

Margaret




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