Any other access method ?

[szlizm]

Hi, there,

In addition to telnet, is there any other method to access Cisco 12000 Series routers? Do they have open library (i.e. API) for research and development? Thanks.

Zhaoming

[Harold Ritter]

You can also use ssh, rcmd and snmp to manage the router remotely.

Hope this helps,

[szlizm]

Thanks. Is there any low level library, which can be called from high level language (like C/C++)?

[Harold Ritter]

Not currently. Maybe in the near future.

[szlizm]

It really helps. When time/delay matters, among telnet, ssh, rcmd, and snmp, which one is more time efficient? Thank you.

[scottmac]

There are several perl (and probably python, ruby, etc) libraries for telnet access and snmp access specifically for Cisco equipment.

Check out sourceforge and CPAN for (perl)net::telnet:cisco and net::snmp:cisco .... something like that.

Good Luck

Scott