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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:18:20 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Andrew Hannam <hannama@fan.net.au>
Cc:        owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSDSmall <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Command-line i/f (and versioning)
Message-ID:  <Version.32.19981006001115.01018240@pop.wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810051410490.4561-100000@korin.warman.org. pl>
References:  <000201bdf057$b991c100$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au>

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At 14:22 05-10-98 , Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Andrew Hannam wrote:

>> As long as you are doing the hierarchy breakdown of commands - why not
do it
>> as a set of web page constructs. A tiny web server, a few text files (html
>> pages - forget pictures) and possibly a command interpreter of any flavour.
>> This approach is easier for the administrator (no command set to learn).
>> Management of the various parts of the system can be separated into
separate
>> 'cgi-bin' programs of either compiled or interpreted variety depending on
>> the situation.

>I personally am a big hater of WWW config interfaces... but that's just
>me. IMHO it's useful mostly for marketing hype and (maybe) for people who
>are complete newbies, but for those who want to get the job done it just
>stands in the way... OTOH, perhaps I had just a bad experience - that one
>I tried to use was completely useless, because I could do the same job
>much quicker using command-line i/f with completion...

I myself am a sucker for textbased commandline configurating... WWW
interfaces require too much point and click, then again, it might be better
suited for those that aren't that wellgifted with CLI's =)

>> b) Use the scheme that many standalone devices such as print servers use.
>> Until an IP address is programmed via the web front end - all non-broadcast
>> addresses sent to the ethernet card are accepted. Using a static ARP entry
>> for the device with any suitable IP address is then sufficient to talk
to it
>> in this initial state.
>
>Hmmm... This would probably require putting the interface in promiscuous
>mode, and using some kind of BPF thing to read the packets...

Lame statement though: we are going to make disks, we boot using a disk, so
we probably have a keyboard nearby? Correct me if wrong, but the resources
might be lying around ;)

Also, let's get the picoBSD internals as stable as possible and then
continue onwards to enhancing the interface. So my vote for now is, discuss
and plan enhancements, yet stick with CLI's now. Also, how are we
seperating the STABLE and CURRENT-derived picoBSD's from each other? do
they also have a prefix?

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
    /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\

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