Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:24:57 +0200 (SAT) | From | Mike Kilburn <> | Subject | Re: SNMP (WAS - Re: /proc filesystem code cleanup) |
| |
On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, James Hughes wrote:
> > If the network drivers were standardized to use /proc/net/snmp for > monitoring with any SNMP manager. The CMU agent, modified by Juergen > Schoenwaelder, Erik Schoenfelder and friends for Linux, could then be > used to control things like the IP firewalling and such from the > manager.
The manager only needs a MIB definition. Its the local agent which would need the specifics of how the get/set the objects on the device. The question for the manager side is are their existing MIB definitions for things like firewalling and if not we would need to define one. My guess is they already exist. How the agent gets/sets these things really does not matter because it will never be portable so why not use the existing methods for that - ioctl. I don't see why the fast growing kernel should have two non-standard firewalling interfaces. In general, what is the point of having things duplicated in proc which are available using ioctl or syscalls. I understand people like to 'cat /proc/uptime' and thats ok but the line should be drawn somewhere, or just go all the way and let the entire kernel interface available thru proc. Then one could write a device driver with bash :).
|  |