Re: What name for a printer status supplies module?

[Christopher Hicks]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Terrence Brannon wrote:
David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The fact that it uses http is incidental. If HP bothered to supply a
half-decent MIB, SNMP would be a good alternative.
What does "MIB" stand for?
Men In Black.  ;)
Oh, you mean the geek version...  MIB stands for Management Information 
Base and encapsualtes an API within an SNMP context for a given type of 
device.  Various RFC's have described this through various versions of 
SNMP: http://www.drunkandretired.com/snmp/ has some good links.

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