RE: Some questions

[IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R]

David:

        I myself at one point did try to deploy gnucomm (for testing)
and found it quite difficult to even figure out which libraries and
files were needed to complete and install.

        I spent almost two weeks trying to get the correct libraries and
such installed to no avail. Gnucomm is VERY, VERY difficult to make
work, dispite my attempting to have tried to achieve such an install
ever since Linuxworld where I first heard about it in August of 2001.

        I suggest if you intend to use it, it is a very difficult
product to make work (if you get that far, I did not, I gave up in
frusteration). It seemed (from the documentatioin and such) to be a
powerful product, but I am used to (with my busy schedule) installing a
package via a few RPMs not having to figure out what libraries are part
of the OS and such. I eventually gave up.

        I do hope you have better luck, and I do also think gnucomm is
powerful, but its (at least then) documentation was deplorable and left
me flailing with no completed installation.

        I have since switched to RedHat (was using Mandrake), which may
have been part of the issue, but documentation was certainly difficult
to even figure out without oodles of time, something I rarely have.


Very Respectfully, 

Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG 
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Monday, January 14, 2002 6:14 AM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
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> Behalf Of David
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 6:03 AM
> To: gnucomm
> Subject: Some questions
> 
> I am trying to understand some more about gnucomm.
> 
> I was wondering if I could ask some questions. I have read most of the
> information that I can find and would like to clarify a few things.
> 
> Your http://www.gnu.org/software/gnucomm/overview.html document
indicates
> that you will have a gatekeeper. Have you approached openH323 with
respect
> to
> either re-licensing or even dual licensing their Open H323 software?
Would
> this in fact help? I would have thought it would provide not only a
basic
> protocol stack but a number of other associated programs covering both
> protocol monitoring and end point clients.
> 
> On the topics of Service activation and service assurance does the
GNUe
> initiative have applications or structures here that will be used or
are
> you
> looking at something new? You mention that the configuration should be
> simply
> to the end user and that low end computing power should not be a
barrier
> to
> entry but i was wondering how you were going to build scalability.
> Configuring new services and then monitoring one machine to see that
it is
> performing correctly but what about 300 machines all with different
> versions
> of software and different prompts. Is there any planned mechanism to
> manage a
> very large and diverse network?
> 
> I trust these questions are not bothersome but I am somewhat looking
for
> answers. I checked out the source tree but I am not a programmer so I
was
> looking for documentation of which I didn't find alot and wasn't able
to
> understand the source tree all that well.
> 
> Thankyou for any help you can give me.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> David Price
> 
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