Dave, Thank you for your comments and for your efforts!
I know the exact problem, often chore, of working on software in free time / lunch break, holidays, GHC, is one of my pets ;-) If SMUX is really compatable with what we have then I'll be happy to work bugs and submit patches... here's hoping though ;-) Kind regards Andy On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Dave Shield wrote: > [Please keep all discussions on the mailing list, so > that others can both learn and offer advice. Thanks!] > >On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:25 +0100, Andrew Cheadle wrote: >> Dave, >> >> Thanks for the reply. Don't take this the wrong way ;-) Before I go down >> this route, I am thinking that this is *the* Linux snmpd daemon 'of >> choice' right? > >Well, it's been *my* snmpd daemon of choice for nearly ten years now! >It's been adopted by most (?all) of the Linux distributions, ousting a >Linux-specific port of the CMU agent some years ago. >It's also been picked up by various other O/S distributions (such as >the various *BSD systems). > > >That's not to say that some Johnny-come-lately upstart won't appear >and knock us off our pinnacle in the future :-) But it's probably >fair to say that we're currently the leading Open Source SNMP agent. > >(Some of the other SNMP toolkits may have a cleaner and/or better >documented API, but I'm not aware of anything that matches our agent >in terms of the information it provides out-of-the-box). > > > >> I have no complaints, I used the snmptrapd from the >> ucd-snmp codebase years ago. I just need to be sure it's stable enough >> and well supported enough to use in commercial projects, > >It's as stable as anything can be which is constantly been worked on >and extended. If you want stability rather than cutting-edge features, >then you should probably look at either the 5.1.x or 5.2.x lines. >We're sort-of starting to gear up for a new 5.3 release, which will >include various new features, so is bound to experience some initial >problems. > >As for well-supported - we do our best, but have been struggling for >some time to keep up with the support load. None of the core developers >are paid to maintain or support the software, so this tends to get >squeezed into our spare time (like during my lunch hour, or when the >boss is on holiday!) But paid employment has got to take precedence, >so we can't offer any guarantees as to how much (or little) support >you might get. Particularly as regards something like SMUX, which >is something of a dead-end now. > >But if you need assistance, you can but ask, and we'll try to help >if we can. And you've always got the source..... >(There may be people who offer commercial support for this software, >but I'm not personally aware of anything - mostly because I've never >looked) > >> to that end, I >> want to use what everyone else is using ;-) > >That'd be us, then. >I've never really understood why, but there you go. > > >> Assuming it is, I guess I'll just suck it and see. > >The lad learns fast.... :-) > >Good luck. > >Dave > ********************************************************************* * Andrew Cheadle email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Department of Computing http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~amc4/ * * Imperial College * * University of London * ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
