On 04/30/2014 01:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
What I meant about Windows is everything seems to be hidden behind some gui interface, which leads people to not really understand the underpinnings of what is truly happening. NM seems akin to this, at least the last time I tried to use several years ago.
I work in a development environment where we are constantly adding and removing systems and connections and for me it just gets in the way. I can quickly type ip a a ..., ip r a ... and be done with it.
You do know that windows servers have a fairly complete set of command line options, don't you?
Well the one and only time I configured an interface on windows from the command line I couldn't believe I had to type some great big string to identify the interface, of course I had looked up how to do it on the internet so there may have been a shorter way to do it.
I guess coming from a history of starting out on an IBM 1130 and proceeding thru Burroughs, NCR and Data General OSes and hardware I just got used to understanding at a very low level and doing things without the help of some fancy GUI.