From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 24 09:11:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05303 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rip.ops.neosoft.com (rip.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05204 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com) Received: (from awsmith@localhost) by rip.ops.neosoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) id LAA01960; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:10:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Andrew Smith Message-Id: <199807241610.LAA01960@rip.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: Re: Network Visualisation/Management Software To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:10:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Hugh LaMaster" at Jul 23, 98 06:28:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The weak point in both tools is that the network databases are not > relational, don't scale to very large networks, and don't have any > easy way to manage individual nodes and networks when you know > something the tool doesn't (such as when two nodes really are > just one node). Probably Tcl/Tk should have a standard way to access > a simple but robust relational database which these tools could use. package require Oratcl :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Andrew W. Smith ** awsmith@neosoft.com ** Chief Network Engineer ** ** http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/staff/andrew ** 1-888-NEOSOFT ** ** "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message