Re: requirements for large networks?

[Michael MacFaden <mrm@riverstonenet.com>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:45:18PM -0600, Tom Barron wrote:
>When I want to know what is the configuration state of the box, a
>simple text representation of that state has clear advantages over
>something that must be decoded.  

While I too am generally enamoured of text config files....

1) Like 'simple text' doesn't come with encoding problems either.
Which locale to use, ASCII or EBSIDIC, 8 bit clean, unicode 
or some form of double byte characters, sigh...  

2) Now why would a human be looking over some arbitrary config 
from a pool of potentially thousands of small devices? 

Wouldn't one would simply reset nvram and reprogram 
from a database and move on? 

Mike MacFaden