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2007-08-10 Thread Paul Dumais
e - From: "Paul Dumais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! David I just noticed your message asking for an SSH client for BlackBerry. Our product Idokorro Mob

BlackBerry Apps WAS Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-10 Thread Mark Nash
quot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! David I just noticed your message asking for an SSH client for BlackBerry. Our product Idokorro Mobile SSH supports sending ke

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Dumais
alf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:07 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! > > > I'm looking for a way to keep an eye on my network, and to fix some > basic stuff, while hiking, or on vacation, or what-have

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-10 Thread Anthony R. Mattke
peed Broadband to Rural Central California -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! I'm looking for a way t

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-09 Thread Sam Tetherow
It's not in CPAN but anyone who wants it can send me a request on the members list and I'd be happy to forward it along. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless David E. Smith wrote: Sam Tetherow wrote: Not that it helps much, but I got you covered for most of the RouterOS stuff. I have a perl

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-08 Thread Dylan Oliver
Something like (mt) Media Temple's new sysadmin interface for the iPhone ( http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/) would be ideal! (except for the iPhone, and AT&T) On 8/6/07, Matt Liotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your entire network is managed via a web-based OSS then any cell > phone wit

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-08 Thread Felix A. Lopez
lways have a laptop handy. > But our techs always would have their Laptops > around, thus use the AirCard. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > - Original Message - > From: Travis Johnson > To:

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Tom DeReggi
- Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! For what it's worth, Circuit City had a cheap (Everex) laptop for $349 a few days ago. Why mess around with a small s

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Blair Davis
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:58 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! John Scrivner wrote: You really need your own OSS to

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Russ Kreigh
August 07, 2007 7:58 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! John Scrivner wrote: > >> You really need your own OSS to manage all of your network. We >> looked around at smaller successful telecommunication companies and >> fou

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
John Scrivner wrote: You really need your own OSS to manage all of your network. We looked around at smaller successful telecommunication companies and found that all of them had a good OSS. As such, we decided to do the same and it has been worth every penny. -Matt Sowhat is it? U

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread John Scrivner
You really need your own OSS to manage all of your network. We looked around at smaller successful telecommunication companies and found that all of them had a good OSS. As such, we decided to do the same and it has been worth every penny. -Matt Sowhat is it? Scriv -

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Dave: I was involved in a similar project as yours using Dexterra http://www.dexterra.com/ development software. Dexterra specializes in applications for mobile devices. They are located in Bothell Washington. For NOC monitoring, you may consider contacting CEO Tom Shaw and his team at WAMS -

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Jeff List
A hearty AMEN to that Ryan! Key-Man life insurance is another good idea. Jeff - Original Message - From: "Ryan Langseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Ryan Langseth
I am going to go off-topic here a little with a story. I have been working for InvisiMax for a little over a year now. I do not know who knows the history of this company for the last 1.5 years but we are just finishing up going through a very rough stage in the companies existence. Six months be

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: Is this a statement of "I've used SSH and found it wanting," or "I haven't done this but I don't think it'd work"? Of course I have used SSH. That was one of the applications I was planning on using when I bought the phone. I have since learned my lesson. Why didn't you j

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Travis Johnson
For what it's worth, Circuit City had a cheap (Everex) laptop for $349 a few days ago. Why mess around with a small screen and keyboard on a phone when you can just buy a laptop and have everything you need? :) Travis Microserv Clint Ricker wrote: Well, to chime in late and throw in my two

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Clint Ricker
Well, to chime in late and throw in my two cents... Don't bother. Back when I was in that sort of deal, I went down this road a few times and the reality is that it is not worth it. (I've done this on about 6 different devices and none of them are really viable for anything more than a simple se

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Russ Kreigh
bject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! Matt Liotta wrote: > You are suggesting that there is a situation where there is a problem > so important or complicated that only you can fix it yet you want to > be able to fix it remotely via a cell phone at a baseball game.

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: I refuse to tether myself to my job. I've done that over the last few years, and I'm not doing it any longer. I do accept, though, that there are some things that, out of the eight or so employees working under my boss, I'm the only one who knows them. The ability to fix

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: You are suggesting that there is a situation where there is a problem so important or complicated that only you can fix it yet you want to be able to fix it remotely via a cell phone at a baseball game. Yup! I refuse to tether myself to my job. I've done that over the las

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: Ah, but I'm at the baseball game. At best, my laptop's in my car. (If I felt like putting up with traffic, that means it's in a nearby parking lot, ten or fifteen minutes away, plus however long it takes me to find a wi-fi hotspot in an unfamiliar downtown area. Most of th

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Ryan Langseth
Honestly to find a cell phone or single device that is the prefect sysadmin device is a pipe dream imo. Here is one more thing for you to look at though. http://www.oqo.com/products/model02/features.html The price may make you jump though. Ryan On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:37 -0400, Matt Liotta wr

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: And in those cases you should probably use a laptop. Ah, but I'm at the baseball game. At best, my laptop's in my car. (If I felt like putting up with traffic, that means it's in a nearby parking lot, ten or fifteen minutes away, plus however long it takes me to find a wi

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Sam Tetherow wrote: Not that it helps much, but I got you covered for most of the RouterOS stuff. I have a perl class that uses expect to interface with the command line interface for RouterOS. Is it in CPAN, and if so, what's it called? I know it doesn't quite fit into your pocket and they

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Sam Tetherow
Not that it helps much, but I got you covered for most of the RouterOS stuff. I have a perl class that uses expect to interface with the command line interface for RouterOS. I know it doesn't quite fit into your pocket and they only work with cingular (for cell service) but the sony vaio UX's

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
Mac Dearman wrote: A real life example would be sitting at the ball park - NMS sends a text that "whatever" is down - pick up the cell phone telnet into the "whatever" device and take care of business. Surely you can see the simplicity in what we are looking for, but for some reason you feel the

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: Yeah, well, now we're kinda back to the whole "you wanna give me a new network?" thing. If I have any say in it, any new gear will be easier to manage, but that doesn't magically make all the old gear work that way. I have backhaul links that only support read-only SNMP, a

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Mac Dearman
hat you are doing with this thread. Not difficult. Mac > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt Liotta > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:16 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: I certainly understand your point as we have a variety of radio vendor equipment with a variety of management interfaces. However, all of them have SNMP interfaces, which gave us a common way to manage all of our radios. Yeah, well, now we're kinda back to the whole "you w

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: The original assumption was that "replacing my whole network" was where you were going with your statement, and I apologize for that misinterpretation. Not that your actual suggestion of "write a bunch of Web interfaces" is that much better... I haven't actually suggeste

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Cliff Leboeuf wrote: Butch, why not the Blackjack? Does it have issues or is it more limited than the others? 1. No touchscreen 2. It is SLOW 3. It has serious bluetooth problems 4. The "world's smallest qwerty keyboard" that they claim is the "worlds biggest pita" Those

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: Are you suggesting that you would want to SSH in via a cell phone and adjust BGP or OSPF configs? If the alternative is having a broken network, yes. ;) David Smith MVN.net WISPA Wants You! J

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: It would appear you are making incorrect assumptions. Why would it cost a lot of money? A programmer can be hired on the cheap and the amount of work you need is small. If it cost you more than a few hundred dollars you are over paying. The original assumption was that "re

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
Adam Kennedy wrote: While a web interface is a good idea there are times at which one would still need to SSH into a network. I would rather not have a php interface adjusting BGP or OSPF configs for instance. Are you suggesting that you would want to SSH in via a cell phone and adjust BGP or

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Adam Kennedy
While a web interface is a good idea there are times at which one would still need to SSH into a network. I would rather not have a php interface adjusting BGP or OSPF configs for instance. Matt Liotta wrote: David E. Smith wrote: Hey, if you want to write a Web interface for StarOS, go right

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: Hey, if you want to write a Web interface for StarOS, go right ahead. I'm sure Lonnie would love you for it. :) I don't really have any incentive to do that. In the meantime, though, my network has a lot of things that can only be accessed through telnet or SSH, and I ha

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: This is my point from yesterday. These devices are designed to work well with web-based applications. You will spend far less time and money interfacing them with such. Hey, if you want to write a Web interface for StarOS, go right ahead. I'm sure Lonnie would love you for

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Mac Dearman
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:20 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! > > Felix A. Lopez wrote: > > Dave/Mike: Handango has a bevy of software and >

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: I need, specifically, a working "Ctrl" key, and key chording. I couldn't find any Windows Mobile SSH client that supported those (when I started on this project a few weeks back, I tested substantially all of 'em). Can anyone confirm/deny whether there's one that works tha

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-07 Thread David E. Smith
Felix A. Lopez wrote: Dave/Mike: Handango has a bevy of software and "handheld applications". See weblink below http://www.handango.com/home.jsp?siteId=1 Okay, now let's poke at details... I need, specifically, a working "Ctrl" key, and key chording. I couldn't find any Windows Mobile SSH

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Mike Hammett
eneral List" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! Alltell is all CDMA. They have acquired a couple companies that were GSM, but they pretty quickly migrate custoemrs to CDMA handsets and replace the equipment at the towers. Allte

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! I'm looking for a way to keep an eye on my network, and to fix some basic stuff, while hiking, or on vacation, or what-have-you. Ideally, something I could take to a baseball

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David Sovereen
inal Message - From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! I think the Alltel network around us is all GSM based which would mean, I would as

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Felix A. Lopez
Dave/Mike: Handango has a bevy of software and "handheld applications". See weblink below http://www.handango.com/home.jsp?siteId=1 F. --- "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hammett wrote: > > I'd think a Sprint PocketPC device would be the > way to go, but I haven't > > tried

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread John Scrivner
I think the Alltel network around us is all GSM based which would mean, I would assume, that we could load a SIM card into any unlocked GSM device and use it on their network. Any reason why I might be wrong with this thinking? Anyone ever load a SIM card from an unlocked device for use on thei

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David Sovereen
e Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! Mike Hamme

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Mike Hammett
ssage - From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! Mike Hammett wrote: I'd think a Sprint PocketPC device would be the way to go, b

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
Mike Hammett wrote: I'd think a Sprint PocketPC device would be the way to go, but I haven't tried it. The device would probably work, but Sprint's coverage around here is atrocious. (My personal phone is on Sprint, and it doesn't work reliably at about half of our tower locations, for instan

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Mike Hammett
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! I'm looking for a way to keep an eye on my network, and to fix some basic stuff, while hiking, or on vacation, or what-have-you. Ideally, something I could take to a baseball game with me, even.

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
John Valenti wrote: This is totally in the other direction of having a full keyboard, but you might look at the Nokia 770 and 800. The 770's are on discount now, for about $150. Someone showed me theirs last week. It is more geared toward Wi-Fi connections, but would connect to the net thru

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread John Valenti
David, This is totally in the other direction of having a full keyboard, but you might look at the Nokia 770 and 800. The 770's are on discount now, for about $150. Someone showed me theirs last week. It is more geared toward Wi-Fi connections, but would connect to the net thru bluetoot

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: What do you call a Blackberry and Motorola Q other than a cell phone? Well, if you want to poke at semantics... ;) My intent was to imply that "full QWERTY keyboard" good, "standard phone keypad with only twelve or so buttons" bad. Just for playing, I did play with midps

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: Again, I think a web-based system would be better. For example, you could on the cheap write a PHP script to SSH into something and reboot it all while presenting a web interface to your mobile. Safe and effective! That implies my ability to write a PHP script with "click h

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
JohnnyO wrote: I've used my Cingular 8125 to do SSH and Web based management I have not looked into what upgrades they have for this but it's been nice at times. What SSH client are you using? (And does the keyboard actually have a Ctrl key?) It's likely I'll still be stuck with a Black

RE: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Cliff Leboeuf
Butch, why not the Blackjack? Does it have issues or is it more limited than the others? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Matt Liotta
David E. Smith wrote: It's not so much a "network management system" as it is "a six-year-old copy of WhatsUp Gold." That might be worth looking into then. The most complicated thing I'm likely to try with one is rebooting it, but even that requires logging into something via SSH (either the

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Matt Liotta
John Scrivner wrote: We are not looking at a cell phone. We are looking for a device with a very small keyboard as you can see by his request... Thus, I'm probably limited to a Blackberry or maybe a Windows Mobile device like the Motorola Q, running on a cell phone network. What do you c

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread JohnnyO
h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go! Matt Liotta wrote: If your entire network is managed via a web-based OSS then any cell phone with a decent browser should do

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, David E. Smith wrote: I'm looking for a way to keep an eye on my network, and to fix some basic stuff, while hiking, or on vacation, or what-have-you. Ideally, something I could take to a baseball game with me, even. I'd suggest an IPAQ or similar type palmtop pc. I know

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
Matt Liotta wrote: If your entire network is managed via a web-based OSS then any cell phone with a decent browser should do what you need. I can't imagine wanting to do SSH via a cell phone. That seems like a sure fire way to have a typo on something important. It's not so much a "network ma

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread John Scrivner
Matt Liotta wrote: If your entire network is managed via a web-based OSS then any cell phone with a decent browser should do what you need. I can't imagine wanting to do SSH via a cell phone. That seems like a sure fire way to have a typo on something important. -Matt We are not looking at

Re: [WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread Matt Liotta
If your entire network is managed via a web-based OSS then any cell phone with a decent browser should do what you need. I can't imagine wanting to do SSH via a cell phone. That seems like a sure fire way to have a typo on something important. -Matt David E. Smith wrote: I'm looking for a way

[WISPA] Managing your network on the go-go-go!

2007-08-06 Thread David E. Smith
I'm looking for a way to keep an eye on my network, and to fix some basic stuff, while hiking, or on vacation, or what-have-you. Ideally, something I could take to a baseball game with me, even. A laptop computer is far too big for what I've got in mind, as it's likely to double as a pass-arou