Re: Network device command line interfaces

[Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui () gmail com>]

> However vendors of low cost routers/switches/muxes seem to take a stab in
> the dark and produce some really nasty stuff. I have a personal hate of
> text based menus and binary config backup files.

Not necessarily it has to be cheap to have text based menus and binary
config backups, it can be damn expensive... mmmm remember Alcatel PSAX even
their old PABX series..

In our recent encounters with real cheap stuff (switches m routers) the CLI
is so much friendly :).


Regards,

Aftab A. Siddiqui