From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 24 05:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA26667 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 05:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA26660 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 05:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA01417; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:17:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199807241217.IAA01417@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: wjw@IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SYSCTL ....... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:16:39 +0200." <199807232316.BAA06524@surf.IAE.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:17:29 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your proposed datatstructures are very space-ineficient, but that isn't a big deal in a VM environment. (I come from the position of writing mib agents for routers, where you don't generally have VM.) I think you are making a mistake by providing seperate operations for "numoids" and "nameoids". That is because you should also be able to combine them. E.G.: aaaa.3.5 1.3.6.1.n.n.n.n.n.n.aaaa.3 I suggest you simply provide an oid parser that "does the right thing". That is how I do it, and just about everyone else who parses oids does it. Also, if you are going to have a MIB, why isn't it built like "normal" mibs are built, I.E. with an asn.1 description and a toolchain? (I'm asking that of the general FreeBSD crowd.) Also, why not provide the famous "Awesome Get Bulk" operation? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message