From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 13 10: 1:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED6437C46A for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04252; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:58:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03944; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:58:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:58:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007131658.KAA03944@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final call for review: Dynamic sysctls. In-Reply-To: <200007122148.OAA24155@usr02.primenet.com> References: <1463.963426643@critter.freebsd.dk> <200007122148.OAA24155@usr02.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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". Not in a way that is usable, in too many cases. It works for simple things, but for complicated and/or quickly changing things, it's way too complicated and resource hungry (mostly bandwidth) because the protocol is way too chatty. (And yes, I have real-world/commercial experience doing this, for my prior and present companies, over wireless links.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message