On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Michael Steiger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I need to implement IF-MIB for a network appliance (running embedded
> linux) where the ports are not integrated into linux but only accessible
> via special hardware.
>
> I already tried with MFD and also iterate or iterate-access but after
> looking through the net-snmp 5.7.1 source tree I thought that maybe
> using the default implementation with a new interface definition could
> be a solution (agent/mibgroup/if-mib/data_access/interface_XXXX.[ch]).
>
> http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/IF-MIB_rewrite
> talks about porting to a new platform which would be my situation I
> think. It's not a new platform like another operating system but a
> completely different way to access the hardware.
>
> Any ideas or comments for this?

First of all, this discussion should probably be on the coders lists
instead of the users list (I've changed the CC).

The first question is whether or not you are completely replacing
the ifTable, or you just need to add your special interfaces to
the existing table...

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