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Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:47:25 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:About the only time you'd strictly *need* dynamic configuration in an OOB is when directly connecting it to a commodity Internet link. If you're willing to give your poorly secured and rarely updated OOB a public IP address, you're a braver man than I am. If you are that "brave" then you'll need a more robust set of dynamic configuration tools than just the ones you've listed and you'll also need a dynamic dns client or some other mechanism for the the OOB to let you know what addresses it ended up on.it's possible that he's thinking of a world where your dhcp is not 'dynamic' but a management system which can keep all the other bits of information updated (and easily updatable!) for the remote nodes:
Well, I was actually thinking more about initial factory default configuration.
After I can reach the device, I would like to be able to set a static address. I'll consider adding this to the document.
My grief with this is that if we're going to go into that kind of level, we need a RFC style document with a lot of detail, and that wasn't what I was initially aiming for. I wanted more to spark the discussion and see what came out of it. If there indeed is a lot of interest in this, I'd gladly like to try to create a more detailed document.
I would be very happy if multiple vendors could standardise on a functionality and software though, perhaps even with API. Don't know which standards body would be right for this though.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- OOB core router connectivity wish list Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list William Herrin (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Christopher Morrow (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list William Herrin (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 09)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Jared Mauch (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Nick Hilliard (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Christopher Morrow (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list sthaug (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Christopher Morrow (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Jared Mauch (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Michael Thomas (Jan 10)
- Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list Christopher Morrow (Jan 09)