Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF
they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a
support contract to have a list of commands the
hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty
with a oc12 pos module.
Thanks,
David
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login,
but the list of manuals is not. You fail to mention which product you're
interested in, so I'm going to take a stab and hope that it's something
current with a pos card like an MLX/XMR. If you're still rocking an old
B2P622, I'd say you're in need of far more help than any manual can
provide. 
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_user/current/NetIron_04100_ConfigGuide.pdf
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_diag/current/NetIronXMR-MLX_04100_DiagnosticRef.pdf
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login,
but the list of manuals is not.
Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or
require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the
documentation. On the other hand there are several vendor that are very
forthcoming vendors that even send you test equipment for free.
Guess which company's I'm recommending to customers.
cheers
Jens
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> writes:
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login,
but the list of manuals is not.Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or
require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the
documentation.
Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract.
I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds
or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally
doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal
search engines are usually a bad joke at best.
Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several
years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe?
Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No
useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother
putting up a web server.
I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and
Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys!
Bjørn
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> writes:
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
>
>> Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login,
>> but the list of manuals is not.
>
> Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or
> require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the
> documentation.Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract.
I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds
or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally
doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal
search engines are usually a bad joke at best.Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several
years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe?Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No
useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother
putting up a web server.I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and
Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys!
Agree. The first thing a vendor can do to have a chance of you buying
their gear is to make it as easy as possible to transition to it, and
that includes becoming familiar with it's CLI, and working out how much
effort you'll need to spend on converting to different syntax. What's
so proprietary about how to configure OSPF that it needs to be kept a
secret?
It would be a good idea to have a bug database that accessible to paying support customers.
Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications
joe@via.net
650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax
If you have older foundry gear (IronCore, JetCore, MG8) do a google
search for "Using Packet Over SONET Modules".
Jonas