Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

[Joe Abley]

On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:44 , Pedro R Marques wrote:

> I would be inclined to agree with your statement that the major blame
> should lie on "router vendors" if you see your router vendor as
> someone that sells you the network elements + the NMS to manage it.

The NMS for the vast majority of network operators is "telnet", 
occasionally augmented with "syslog".

> But in my guestimate the focal point of our search for a culprit
> should be the NMS or the NMS -> router management mechanism. Idealy
> the latter should be more computer friendly than text parsing.

Amen to that.


Joe