More thoughts

[Jeff Bailey]

I was playing yesterday with SVG[0] in Mozilla[1], and I'm really
pleased with how it works.  I can pick up icons and drag them around
the screen.  There's also an example where I can pick up lines and
move one end at a time.

I think I know enough Javascript after that to make it so that you can
move icons where you'd like and click 'save', and have it do the Right
Thing.

I also finally figured out how to associate the "CAM" on a Cisco
Catalyst switch (Basically the list of which MAC addresses are plugged
into which port).

I'm noticing some quirkyness which different devices (even different
Cisco devices).  MAC addresses, for instance, don't seem to be format
specified.  Sometimes it's a string of octets all mashed together,
sometimes :, or space, or dash seperated.  I've been trying to think
of how "quirks" should be handled.  Basically a sysdeps/ hierarchy
that has code in it to handle different devices?  Is it reasonable to
write this in Scheme?

I also may start writing a MIB compiler soon.  CMU's snmpwalk takes
forever to read all of the MIBs in, I have a feeling that their
package is going to be unsuitable for linking in.  If not, I'll have a
bunch of design work to do on the Ideal SNMP agent. =)

[0] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/


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