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+<title>Looking Glass Notes</title>
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+
+</strong></font><font face="Arial"> </font><font
+size=+3><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Looking Glass Notes
+</strong></font></p>
+<br>
+<p>
+<ul>
+Just a few straight forward notes on our implementation of
+Ed Kern's looking glass. See the "real thing" at
+<a href=http://nitrous.digex.net>http://nitrous.digex.net</a>.
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>
+<UL>
+<li>Items in the queries column which do not have radio buttons
+ are not yet implemented but are on the list of things to do.</li>
+<li>Some items are not implemented for the junipers yet (so, as i get
+ to it) or no equivalent exists.
+<li>If there is something which you feel is missing, feel free to ask
+ and/or send comments to the <a href=mailto:rancid@shrubbery.net>maintainer
+ </a> to implement it. No guarantees.</li>
+<li>Only one query per router allowed at any given time. This is to avoid
+ resource deprivation. The looking glass will attempt to serialize
+ queries.</li>
+<li>The looking glass will ping a router prior to querying it to avoid
+ trying to query routers which are down or otherwise inaccessible.</li>
+<li>Login failures can be intermittent or permanent, either due to the
+ router being inaccessible from the looking glass machine,
+ or authorization failure(s). Contact your local network engineering
+ folks to resolve login failures.</li>
+<li>Queries followed by &lt;something&gt; require an argument(s) in the text
+ window below the query list. Some queries take optional arguments
+ denoted by [something]. Multiple arguments should be separated by a
+ space.</li>
+<li>Note that output from certain queries is cached by the server and may
+ be slightly out of date. These queries will be noted as such in the
+ output. This is limited to queries which could produce lots of output,
+ such as 'sh ip bgp dampened-paths'.</li>
+<li>Note that some queries have potential to produce great load on the router
+ and produce lots of output, such as 'sh ip bgp' or 'sh ip bgp reg '^3561'.
+ The looking glass attempts to deny such commands.</li>
+</ul>
+</body>
+</html>