Re: configure script settings?

2010-09-09 Thread Niels Baggesen
Den 09-09-2010 09:32, Dave Shield skrev: > On 9 September 2010 08:18, Abraham Varricatt > wrote: >> Is it possible to have some kind of settings file for the >> "./configure" script? > > Try './configure -C ' or ./config.status --recheck or create a one line shell script just with the conf

Re: CFV: ifAlias support

2010-09-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:19:27 -0700 Wes Hardaker wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:17:01 -0700, Stephen Hemminger > > said: > > SH> It is a zero-length string unless admin has set it through > SH> ip link set dev eth0 alias 'my network interface' > SH> or via sysfs > SH> echo 'some strin

Re: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:22:13 -0700, Judith Walker > said: JW> Thanks to the responder (Wes). It's not the answer that I wanted to JW> hear, but I greatly appreciate the response, regardless. Well, glad to be of help. Unfortunately that's the only answer the SNMP protocol allows for :

RE: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Judith Walker
Thanks to the responder (Wes). It's not the answer that I wanted to hear, but I greatly appreciate the response, regardless. Judy -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills.

Re: CFV: ifAlias support

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:17:01 -0700, Stephen Hemminger > said: SH> It is a zero-length string unless admin has set it through SH> ip link set dev eth0 alias 'my network interface' SH> or via sysfs SH> echo 'some string' >/sys/class/net/eth0/ifalias SH> The point is the OS doesn't set it

Re: CFV: Add missing make targets

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:36:19 +0200, Thomas Anders > said: TA> +1 (assumed we're doing rc3 which seems likely) +1 (rc3 does look likely; but I think it's also a safe patch for final as well) -- Wes Hardaker Please mail all replies to [email protected]

Re: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
JW> I can collect these metrics into Count32 and Count64 variables JW> respectively, but management systems using these MIBs will see JW> rollovers at 29 and 48. Is this acceptable? No, unfortunately, it is not. The management station will get skewed data it doesn't expect if you do it that way

Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Judith Walker
I have a question with respect to counters in SNMP and the rollover of counters. If anyone can point me to a precedence or recommendation for the metrics reporting that I intend to do, I would be very grateful. I'm writing a MIB that supports reports metrics from hardware/firmware. Since hard

Re: reg snmp sub-agent

2010-09-09 Thread Dave Shield
On 8 September 2010 07:43, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Could any one plz give me  an example in which we need a separate snmp > sub-agent. "Need" - probably never. "Could be useful" - very easily. Consider a routing agent, running on a gateway box. This will inherently contain all the information neede

Re: configure script settings?

2010-09-09 Thread Dave Shield
On 9 September 2010 08:18, Abraham Varricatt wrote: > Is it possible to have some kind of settings file for the > "./configure" script? Try './configure -C ' This should cache (and subsequently re-use) most of the settings that you specify on the command line. You may need to experiment to

configure script settings?

2010-09-09 Thread Abraham Varricatt
Is it possible to have some kind of settings file for the "./configure" script? I'm trying to lean down the snmpd agent I'm compiling (so it has only the example nstAgentModuleObject) and its a real pain to type this in each time, ./configure --disable-mibs --disable-applications --disable-manuals