Re: [netmod] operational knobs

[Phil Shafer <phil at juniper.net>]

"Randy Presuhn" writes:
>Adding them would have been a change to the protocol's grammar,
>which would have been a non-starter for several reasons:

Adding new verbs would not have been so destructive.  A MIB variables
listing known verbs would have allowed a device to advertise to the
application the verbs it supported, and verb-less clients would
simply have ignored the advanced options available on enlghtened
devices.

Thanks,
 Phil