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> >(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'
Aaah. Thanks. That wasn't obvious.
> >(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.
I shall investigate further, but I *believe* that the existing IP layout tools
simply attach nodes with a matching IP address to the "correct" local network.
As I said in my original post, this isn't terribly useful to us! I want a more
general solution, however this shouldn't too difficult to script.
> >(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.
As it happens, most of the devices on our FDDI do support snmp, and can tell
me which interface is connected to which kind of network, but that's not what
I meant though. I simply want to have a different representation on the map. I
could fake this with four network icons arranged in a rectangle, but I was
hoping for something better.
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