[Bloat] vyatta in AT&T 5G gear

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:46:44 -0700
Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> wrote:

> Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 16/10/2018 17:14, Dave Taht wrote:  
> >> And what was so wrong with the "everything as a file" model??  
> >
> > On a single box - not a lot.
> >
> > On a 5G network, which might consist of 10^3 - 10^5 boxes you need
> > aggregation and abstraction layers.  
> 
> I was mostly just venting. Still... I'd hoped that the next generation
> fios gear would get bufferbloat right... and with all the 5G boasting
> about the 1ms mac, that they'd get queuing delay below 20ms also.
> 
> I was also hoping the DOCSIS 3.1 line cards would get it right...
> 
> It has been a disappointing day.

At scale, you need a usable programming model; on box CLI or files don't work well.
Netconf/yang was built for that.