Neil J. McRae wrote: > I would be deploying automation to take care of network > problems/issues/whatever whether I worked at BT or I was the admin of > a network with four and a half nodes.
For sure. e.g. we've automated the hell out of INEX (which has more than 4.5 nodes btw). The point is that most ASNs are a good deal smaller than this, and less amenable to automation than IXPs. There's simply no point in writing automation software to handle one or two routers with 5 or fewer ebgp sessions between them, which describes the overwhelming majority of ASNs in the world. > We have the world and his wife automating and innovating on top of > -our- internet platform and we are still encouraging behaviours like > it was 1992 (I'd say like mission control in the 60s but I think they > had more automation back then!) Rather than castigating people for their shortsightedness, did you take the time to ask e.g. Job why a large carrier like NTT might want this feature? Their network is likely to be highly automated. Nick _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
