Re: bug or feature?

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Martin Bjorklund writes:
>The XSD in RFC 4741 allows <startup> as <target> in an <edit-config>.
>It is not clear if this a bug in the XSD or a feature.  Section
>8.7.5.1 lists the operations the server MUST support for the :startup
>capability, but it doesn't say that the server MAY support others.  So
>is this intentional or not?  (if the intention was that the server MAY
>support this, how would a manager know?)

This is definitely a bug.  The intention was to not allow editing
of the startup config, since it was really just a chunk of flash
memory and isn't loaded into a real database.

>Another related bug (or feature) is that the XSD supports <startup> as
><target> in <delete-config>.  In section 7.4 there is actually an
>example where this is used.  But is this really supposed to be
>supported?  It is not listed in 8.7.5.1.

My initial reaction here is that this is a bug.  Startup represents
a section of flash memory, and deleting it IIRC isn't possible.  My
memory is fuzzy, but I don't think we intended to allow this.  The
fact that it's in an example conflicts this, so maybe my memory's off.

Thanks,
 Phil

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