Still, there's hope: The SNMP Configuration Working Group has nearly completed its work to leverage SNMP as a configuration mechanism, which means there'd be a standardized way to configure VLANs across multiple vendors' equipment--a critical step toward making networks the utilities we want them to be.
It took network hardware and management vendors only 10 years from the time SNMP was ratified to create the current variety of performance- and fault-management products. Let's hope it won't be 2013 before I can write in these pages about the configuration-management product I just tested that successfully configured all my network equipment, including my Cisco 7400.
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