Re: A few potential requirements

[john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>]

Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:15:21AM -0700, Randy Bush:
> > even small boxes should have serial consoles.
> 
> a vendor may choose to make a box without.  and you and i have the right
> not to buy it, and even to flame them on nanog for making such a (we think)
> stoopid thing.  but we don't have the right to tell them not to make it.
> 
> randy

if you dont tell them, some will never know.  after a box is
on the assembly line is way too late.  there any number of things
you want (NMI button, ...), what you want and will flog the vendor
for (upgrabale DRAM/flash, ... ), and they are supersets of what
you must have (cli, xml, ...).