On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 23:15 +0200, Thomas Anders wrote:
> Antonin Kral wrote:
> > Don't you have some
> > pointers, what is needed to be implemented? Because I should
> > be able to invest some manpower to solve this.
>
> That's something we *love* to hear (in general).
Definitely!
> I have no idea how hard
> it is to port the IF-MIB rewrite to Windows (any Un*x would
> probably be easier)
Possibly, though it's almost certainly *MUCH* easier to port
the IF-MIB rewrite, than doing this for the original code.
There's really only one pair of files that need to be coded:
mibgroup/if-mib/data_access/interface_XXXX.[ch]
Robert's the expert here, but AFAICS, this should contain
the following routines:
netsnmp_arch_interface_init
netsnmp_arch_interface_index_find
netsnmp_arch_interface_container_load
netsnmp_arch_interface_get_if_speed
Most of the work is done by
netsnmp_arch_interface_container_load
which should retrieve the list of interfaces from the
underlying O/S, and store these in a standard format.
See the "interface_linux.c" version for a general guide
as to how this should be done (though the details will
obviously be very different for Windows!)
The purpose of the other three routines should be fairly
obvious - again, see the linux code for guidance.
> but others will most certainly chime in here.
Robert - care to correct or expand on any of the above?
I'm also wondering whether we should supply a simple
interface_template.[ch]
pair of files, containing the bare structure of what's
needed for a new port.
Porting this re-write to Windows is likely to prove
an extremely valuable test of how clean this new
structure is. If that goes fairly smoothly, anything
else should be trivial!
Dave
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