CLI ?

Ladislav Lhotka lhotka at cesnet.cz
Mon Apr 26 18:12:31 CEST 2010


Wolfgang Hennerbichler píše v Po 26. 04. 2010 v 17:55 +0200:
> 
> On 4/26/10 5:50 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Arnold Nipper<arnold at nipper.de>  wrote on 2010/04/26 17:40:51:
> >> On 26.04.2010 17:06 Joakim Tjernlund wrote
> >>
> >>> OK, but it would be handy if I could config log files from there.
> >>>
> >>
> >> BIRD is like a racing car whereas you are talking about a Mercedes-Benz
> >> S-type ... you see the difference?
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Seriously, is there any fundamental reason one cannot configure
> > all aspects from a CLI(I am assuming that no one has cared enough to impl. it in BIRD CLI yet)?
> 
> what for? some of us generate our bird configurations automatically, 
> from various data sources, if do that with a cli you're basically 
> screwed. furtheremore a cli has no version control and is by far not as 
> efficient as a decent editor.

But it might be actually quite useful to add support for NETCONF
protocol, e.g., by using the "Netopeer" NETCONF implementation:
http://code.google.com/p/netopeer/

Cheers, Lada

> 
> > I ask because I would like to configure some(if not everything) from our
> > app with its own CLI/GUI.
> 
> see vim as your CLI :)
> 
> >   Jocke
> 
> wogri


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