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Cc: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bsnmpd: ifTable and if_nametoindex() inconsistency
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On 24.01.2011 19:30, Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 
> EG>On 23.01.2011 00:24, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> EG>> I really need quick method to obtain SNMP index within mpd55 code
> EG>> (for my local mpd hacks) and if_nametoindex() used to seem nice way...
> EG>> I need to export indexes via mpd's web interface so that they may be
> EG>> checked remotely using SNMP.
> EG>
> EG>Still wondering how to get SNMP index without way too slow walking ifTable over...
> 
> We could implement a private table which maps sysindex -> ifIndex. That 
> would then require one GET before accessing ifTable.

That would be nice :-)