Re: DLSw reachability; Ethernet MAC addresses

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, David Prall <dcp_at_dcptech.com> wrote:
> Could you imagine how annoying an 80 character screen would be if all of the
> netflow was expanded to decimal.
>
> What about troubleshooting a mainframe application where the connection is
> coming from non-canonical address X and you are looking at the endpoint but
> can't find X because it is displayed in canonical format.
>
> It all depends on what you are doing at the time.

Both fair comments, but how hard would it be for Cisco to implement a
command line parameter in IOS to switch the output format behaviour?

I think the last time I was forced to use an 80x25 terminal was when I
was running Telix in DOS to connect to a dial-up BBS in 1994 :-)

Cheers,
Dale

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Received on Thu Feb 11 2010 - 13:48:44 ART