On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Dave Shield <d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: > On 21 April 2011 21:49, Zack Little <zackl...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> The only thing I don't understand now is why IPV6-ICMP-MIB isn't being >> returned. I enabled it and IPV6-MIB on the "--with-mibs" line, but snmpd is >> only returning IPV6-MIB. > > The '--with-mibs' configure option is used to control which MIB files > are loaded by default by the MIB parser. I.e. which object names are > understood by the client tools. > It has no effect on what code is included within the agent - i.e. > what MIB values the agent will report. > > To control this, you need to use the configure option '--with-mib-modules' > > However, following a quick scan of the code, I'm not at all sure > that the Net-SNMP agent implements this particular MIB. > There's some code for it within 'mibII/ipv6.c', but it's never > actually registered. > And there doesn't seem to be any mention of these objects in the newer > re-writes. > So my suspicion is that nobody has ever written the necessary code > to support this MIB. Which is why the agent doesn't report this information.
Note that the IPv6-MIB was obsoleted in 2006, so if anyone is going to put effort into anything, it might be best to focus on the version-independent IP-MIB (RFC4293). Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
