there are isps where a human never types at a router (except to debug) and all configuration is programatically generated from enterprise and customer data entered by folk from sales to provisioning to address admin through sexy gui interfaces. the canonic configuration is the data in the data- base, and the classic phrase "the network is the data-base of record" is anathema.
these configuration generation systems have 'back ends' (excuse the compiler term) for many vendors' so-called configuration languages, and the router brand, model, and sw version are but more parameters in the data-base. randy -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
