From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 12 14:48:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671D737C38D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:48:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15846; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:49:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAU8ai4E; Wed Jul 12 14:49:10 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24155; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:48:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200007122148.OAA24155@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Final call for review: Dynamic sysctls. To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:48:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1463.963426643@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jul 12, 2000 08:30:43 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. SNMP covers "all that which can be examined or modified". How are sysctl's not _all_ a subset of this? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message