From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 11:10:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049F037BF47 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 826482DC0D; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:15:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E9CA67818; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:05:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77FA10E17; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:05:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:05:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final call for review: Dynamic sysctls. In-Reply-To: <1272.963424753@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Andrzej B > ialecki writes: > >On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > >> Please obtain an OID arc from IANA, and establish your > >> hierarchy under an OID, with both dynamic and static subtrees, > >> so that these controls can also be exported via SNMP, ACAP, > >> LDAP, SLPv2, Saluatation, HP JetSend, JINI, LISA, and T-Spaces, > >> as well as other externalization protocols. > > > >Sounds like a good idea. How do I go about it? > > I already have registered a vendor OID with IANA for FreeBSD. Good! Then what it is? > > Terry on the other hand doesn't realize what he is saying here > so don't pay too much attention to him for now. I disagree with you here. I certainly see merit in having a tree that can easily be exported preserving 1:1 oid numbering wihtout fear that they will clash with someone else's. OTOH, since most oids are created nowadays with OID_AUTO, the exact numbers will differ for the same nodes depending on how and when they were created. Indeed, when we added OID_AUTO we more or less abandoned the idea of having constant oid numbers that go with names. As it is now, more reliable method would be actually to create external oids from names using some hashing schema... :^)) Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message