Cisco-like CLI interpreter

[Rubens Kuhl Jr.]

Hi.

After seeing many non-Cisco devices with Cisco-like CLI interfaces, I'm assuming that it's not patented by Cisco.
Have anyone seen an open-source interpreter that presents a Cisco-like interface, so one can make a home-made device looks more familiar to operations personnel ?

Googled a bit with no results, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/cosi-nms/ doesn't seems to have anything in this direction.


Rubens
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[Lajber Zoltan]

Post by Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Hi.
After seeing many non-Cisco devices with Cisco-like CLI interfaces, I'm
assuming that it's not patented by Cisco. Have anyone seen an
open-source interpreter that presents a Cisco-like interface, so one can
make a home-made device looks more familiar to operations personnel ?

It's seams like an old, abandoned project, but give a try:
http://www.gnu.org/directory/network/misc/cish.html

It uses the old 2.2 kernel ipchains. Should be nice to update to use
recent linux kernel (2.6.x) netfilter, vlan and bridge funcions.

Bye,
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[Mark E. Mallett]

Post by Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Hi.
After seeing many non-Cisco devices with Cisco-like CLI interfaces, I'm
assuming that it's not patented by Cisco. Have anyone seen an
open-source interpreter that presents a Cisco-like interface, so one can
make a home-made device looks more familiar to operations personnel ?

Reminds me of my old "comnd" library written in C which implements
quite a bit of the TOPS20 COMND JSYS functions, including some extra
stuff such as alternate parse paths and guide words. This was, in
fact, the code library used by Cisco 20 years ago or so when they
produced their first CLI using command completion. I did a rewrite
and cleanup since that time, and I would bet they did too :-) As fate
would have it, I have lost the rewritten version.

I would also be willing to bet that there are newer and better
implementations of COMND nowadays. I did know of a couple at one
point, include the one used by "kermit" (ccmd, I think) and at least
one other, perhaps written in Tcl.

mm
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[Gould, Aaron M (NRSW N61CR1W)]

Rubens, sorry, i don't have an answer to your question, but did want to
comment on the cisco-ios-like interface found on other products. I didn't
really know how prevalent it was elsewhere but, I work for the Navy in san
diego and a few years ago they got about 10 Marconi ESR5000's. The CLI on
that box was very simimlar to cisco-ios-cli.

aaron



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-----Original Message-----
From: Rubens Kuhl Jr. [mailto:***@email.com]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:54 AM
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Subject: [nsp] Cisco-like CLI interpreter



Hi.

After seeing many non-Cisco devices with Cisco-like CLI interfaces, I'm
assuming that it's not patented by Cisco.
Have anyone seen an open-source interpreter that presents a Cisco-like
interface, so one can make a home-made device looks more familiar to
operations personnel ?

Googled a bit with no results, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/cosi-nms/
doesn't seems to have anything in this direction.


Rubens
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[Niels Bakker]

Post by Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Have anyone seen an open-source interpreter that presents a Cisco-like
interface, so one can make a home-made device looks more familiar to
operations personnel ?

Zebra/Quagga should do the trick.


-- Niels.

[Don Bowman]

Post by Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Hi.
After seeing many non-Cisco devices with Cisco-like CLI
interfaces, I'm assuming that it's not patented by Cisco.
Have anyone seen an open-source interpreter that presents a
Cisco-like interface, so one can make a home-made device
looks more familiar to operations personnel ?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcli/

"Provides a shared library for including a Cisco-like command-line interface
into other software. It's a telnet interface which supports command-line
editing, history, authentication and callbacks for a user-definable function
tree."

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