[Infrastructures] using IA methodologies to build network element configuration

[Aaron Glenn]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:23:46 -0500 (EST), Adam S. Moskowitz
<adamm@menlo.com> wrote:
> Why in the world would you want to do that?!?! It's a router, not a
> general purpose computer! Do you really want a bloated, unproven, not-
> hard-realtime O/S on routers that are handling metric buttloads of
> packets every second? I certainly don't.

Perhaps Joel just wants to run CVS/SVN/(your favorite version control
software here) *natively* on his network elements? I find vendor c's
handling of configuration files abysmal...and unchanged since IOS 11.x
days - and I don't even have a network of 1000 elements (yet).

aaron.glenn