Hi Larry, At 03:23 PM 5/22/2003 -0400, Larry Menten wrote:
Consequently, a request to add, for example, an MD5 key to what you intend to be an existing interface instance within an OSPF area might end up causing the creation of an OSPF instance, the creation of an OSPF area, and the creation of an OSPF interface instance, and the creation of the desired MD5 key. There is no way to express that you only wish to create an MD5 key and you will not know from the response that instead of a simple operation you have executed a complex one. I believe that characteristics like these are undesireable.
In your example above, I don't understand how it could be valid to add an MD5 key to an OSPF instance that doesn't exist... Some implementations really do have nested data structures where a higher-level data structure must exist in order for a lower-level datastructure to exist... Or at least, in order for the lower-level datastructure to be attached anywhere that would affect configuration. If the datastructures aren't nested in this fashion, then it probably wouldn't make sense to nest them this way in the XML schema for the device. Margaret -- to unsubscribe send a message to netconf-request@ops.ietf.org with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://ops.ietf.org/lists/netconf/>