Hi Juergen, Other than the castrophic cases you called attention to (and others we can think of where you lose the router or the ability to reset the router), could you elaborate on the cases you worry about where the simple policy of rollback to the last known good config does not converge to an acceptable state?
-- Albert
Albert Greenberg
-----Original Message-----
From: network-automation-owner@greatcircle.com <network-automation-owner@greatcircle.com>
To: Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org>
CC: Network Automation List <network-automation@greatcircle.com>
Sent: Mon Apr 18 21:10:05 2005
Subject: Re: CLI transactions
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:38:49PM -0400, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
> > I tend to disagree with your view of the world.
>
> The problem you have with my world view boils down to the fact
> that it hinges on "magic". There is a key technology needed that does
> not actually exist yet, and so my world view doesn't work.
I thought this list was about building network wide configuration
management systems today rather than inventing a new key technology
that solves "magic" to implement "oracles" tomorrow.
/js
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Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen
<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany
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