From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jun 8 20:58:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lerlaptop.lerctr.org (lerlaptop.lerctr.org [207.158.72.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEB237B403; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.lerctr.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g593wWdd036779; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:58:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: MIB support for network devices in FreeBSD? From: Larry Rosenman To: Andy Sparrow Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020609035146.55A8F3E2D@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> References: <20020609035146.55A8F3E2D@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 08 Jun 2002 22:58:32 -0500 Message-Id: <1023595112.349.25.camel@lerlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 22:51, Andy Sparrow wrote: > > > I believe you can get this info if you add the net/snmp or net/snmp4 > > port. > > Hi Larry, > > Thanks for replying. > > Hmmm. I'm talking about code that uses a FreeBSD-specific sysctl to > interrogate the in-kernel if MIB counters, like this: > [snip] > > However, most of the drivers don't seem to have any code like this in them - > and at least some of those drivers don't work with the 3rd-party application > code above. Hmm. I'm not a network developer, and have even less knowledge of what's going on in the interfaces stuff. > > Should they? Or is this an older interface? Haven't the foggiest. Have you looked in -CURRENT to see if it's different there? (and if so, see if it's planned to MFC it?) > > I'd like to advise the author so he can fix a very useful dockapp for me - or, > if this is the way to go, I'll badger Bill Paul to fix the 'wi' driver - oh, > wait a moment, maybe generating patches would be safer :) Probably Patches would work better, if their not in -CURRENT yet. But, I'm just a luser here. LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message