[olug] OLUG Digest, Vol 73, Issue 17

[Gregory Zill]

the software routing add-on called quagga adds the vtysh shell for
another near-cisco experience, including real BGP, RIP and OSPF
implementations

http://www.quagga.net/about.php

2009/3/17  <olug-request at olug.org>:
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Used Routers
> Rob Townley wrote:
>>> Speaking of ciscoish-on-the-command line, PolicyRouting.org seems to
>> indicate that /sbin/ip commands are very similar to cisco, but since i
>> don't have Cisco experience, i dont have a gauge as to how ciscoish
>> iproute2 is.
>
> It's only Cisco-ish to someone who doesn't know Cisco.
>
> You use "ip address" at the beginning of the line when you assign an
> IPv4 address. The similarity ends there.
>
> It's like saying a Linux or *BSD firewall is Cisco-like because they
> both have a command line.
>
> The nsh shell (http://www.nmedia.net/nsh/) is the closest any
> open-source project gets, and even then it's only vaguely Cisco-like.
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche

-- 
The computer you are using has no brain,
therefore you must use your own.

Gregory W Zill, MBA, CISSP