Network device command line interfaces

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:25:21 EST, Ray Soucy said:

> Even companies like Vyatta have invested time in a Web UI rather than
> expanding the core functionality offered (multicast routing support, for
> example), which doesn't seem like the best idea.

Compare the number of customers that insist on a web-gui interface
to the number of customers that are insisting on multicast routing
support.

(Having said that, a sane CLI provides a good basis for a web interface, so
is good engineering whether or not you need multicast ;)
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