Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 2:05 AM, Philip Prindeville > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..snip.. > >> You think that an Asterisk configuration is a lot larger than a Cisco >> 5850 Access Server or a 7216 core router? >> >> >> > > IOS doesn't use XML for configuration. What's a 7216? > >
Actually, it does.... I just don't know if that ever got exposed to the public or not. (Of course, the customers that wanted XML-based configs also wanted ION, so it might only have been exposed on ION.) While I was there (2000-2005) there was a big effort to have all config files be represented as XML. If you ever tried to "diff" two configs of a 7216 (VXR/CMTS) that were from different releases, you'd know why. This would drive customers crazy: portions of config would move around, whitespace would appear where it wasn't previously, names of commands would gratuitously change, etc. Parse-trees would be easier to diff. There were some interesting efforts floating around to have the configuration be sucked up via XML/secure-RPC to a client, edited there, and then pushed back into the router/IAD/firewall, what-have-you. The IOS parser was one of the hairiest pieces of code I had ever had to maintain. But we're getting off the subject. -Philip P.S. I know zip about Skinny, so don't ask... _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
