> 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.
that doesn't cross administrative boundaries very well, and doesn't help a provider to assign prefixes to its customers. kudos for the system though. :) /ot -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
