From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 11:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (fw2.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A02A37B67C for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01465; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:30:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final call for review: Dynamic sysctls. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:05:37 +0200." Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:30:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1463.963426643@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Andrzej B ialecki writes: >> I already have registered a vendor OID with IANA for FreeBSD. > >Good! Then what it is? Can't remember, look it up on their web-page :-) >> 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. Right, but it will be a grave mistake if we just export all sysctls with SNMP. They look similar, but they are very different. If somebody wants to add *real* SNMP to the kernel, MIB-II and similar, we can probably arrange for sysctl to be a vehicle for that, but sysctl covers more territory than SNMP does. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message