[j-nsp] out of band management - real OOB

[Chris Morrow]

On 09/19/11 16:59, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>  BTW, can anyone give a good real-world example of a_routed_  OOB management
>>  network usage?
>>
>>  As far as I understand the whole concept of OOB MGT IP interface was
>>  invented to make the management network totally isolated from any transit
>>  traffic. For security concerns, at the days when firewalls were not trusty
>>  enough, when lack of Internet connection was not that big issue. If you
>>  really need to implement this, you won't run into any routing conflict,
>>  since it's a really separated network, will you?
>>

how about like management networks on ss7 deployments?

It's really not that hard to conceive of a 'management card' on a 
network device that can twiddle all of the network device's parts and 
maintains a separate routing world from the production side of the hardware.

Hell, you could even envision something like this in the world of 
servers: ilom (sun), drac (dell), hp-whatever-the-hell...

-chris

in 2011, we CAN have more than routing table on a single device, yes?