Re: Ethernet

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:42:16 -0500

I can pick out some of these.

>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>(3) I'd quite like to have more than one scrollable window in a single
>interpreter, i.e. so that I can roam round my network's backbone, then expand
>a department in another window. This could be implemented as another way to
>expand a group, but I'd prefer just to have more than one view of the same
>map, like GNU emacs; selections etc would be displayed simultaneously in all
>windows, though group expansion would be specific to the window, so that I
>could see an expanded and unexpanded view of the same map. The only way I can
>see to have more than one window is to create separate maps, and use
>references between them.
>
This I'd love. Combine this with a hyperlink. You could have a separate
map that sould send status uplink commands to a master map too about
host information. heirarchical includes of other maps and interpreters
that were peer aware.

>
>(5) Incremental select/deselect tool; left hand button turns off all the
>previous selections; selection by type does not. This is irritating, as I
>normally want to select a large number of icons, then add or remove a few from
>the selection by hand.
>
You can do this now with 'shift+left-button'

>(6) Mass linking of a list of selected nodes to a single network.
>
I use the layout tool group to do things like this quite successfully.

>(7) Representation of ring topology networks as *networks*, NOT a group icon. Selecting FDDI as the network has no discernable effect. I really want to be able to have a rectangle with rounded corners, or an ellipse.

Well, I can see where this would be useful. But I can see where it also
might be hard to implement. Consider that a host on a ring is still an IP
host that you are probing, and in that respect no different than any other
host. So, your auto-discovery would have to auto-detect an FDDI vs. a Ethernet,
which would, I think, be quite difficult! How would it know?? tkined certainly
isn't that low of a level. Perhaps via SNMP, but not all FDDI 'hubs' or ethernet
devices support SNMP, and those that do don't always have a consistent way
of identifying what portion of the device is or is not a particular media
type.

--
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Hughes					Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin  				Auburn University
			doug@eng.auburn.edu
		Pro is to Con as progress is to congress