From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 18:29:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8423316A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:29:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C799A43FD7 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hAO2TYGJ017129; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com [12.231.115.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hAO2TXxO017396; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:29:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20031124020006.GI2146@dan.emsphone.com> References: <8FF2C6A7-1DFB-11D8-B52A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <20031124020006.GI2146@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <089CEF13-1E26-11D8-B52A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: paul beard Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:29:30 -0800 To: Dan Nelson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:29:39 -0000 On Nov 23, 2003, at 6:00 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > I don't think snmp tables have any defined order. I don't even know if > the index for a particular resource is guaranteed to be stable across > filesystem dismount/remounts. Something like this should work: > My issue was that they shouldn't change once defined: otherwise, how can you reliably use something if it adopts different behavior with each new release/build? After all, we're not talking about Windows here . . . . ;-) It would be useful if / were always 1, for example. It looks like, with the inclusion of RAM and swap in the table, / might be 3. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com