a different view of SNMP

Sun Sep 5 04:38:02 UTC 1999

Ron Buchalski <rbuchals at hotmail.com> wrote:

>From: woods at most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
>>I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already
>>taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their
>>almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management.

>Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_?  :-)

Nah, that's because Cisco sometimes listens.  And, yes, lets the
lowly users to talk to their actual engieers.  Or at least used
to.

(Hint - try to find who wrote some particular piece of code in Nortel).

--vadim