On 26.10.2011 00:03 Robert Story said the following:
> 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).
Good idea.

> 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...

My device has 26 ports (24x1G, 2x10G) + 1 management port (pretty usual 
configuration) and these ports are not accessible via standard Linux 
(except mgmt port) but only by accessing hardware or using special 
software. I will not need to implement all values of ifTable simply 
because I do not have them (like Multicast)

So I think I need to completely replace the ifTable.

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