Re: More BCP: revenge of RS232 and CLIs

[George Jones <gmj@pobox.com>]

> > I'd say s/SHOULD/MUST/ otherwise you get into chicken-egg scenarios.
> >
> > Imagine how ridiculous it would be to try to configure IP on a cisco
> > router, but not being able to get into the serial console because it
> > required IP to be working before you could configure IP.
>
>    Excellent point, however, simply substituting MUST  at that point will not
> solve that problem. Perhaps verbage to the effect that
>
> "NON-IP console authentication MUST -not- be dependant
>   upon IP configuration to function" would come closer to that goal.
>
>    There are word smiths better than I, for the verbage.

Noted.  Will word-smith when the time comes.

Thanks,
---George Jones