Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:18:09 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <2239.817474689@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 1995 20:00:42 PST." <199511270400.UAA00415@rah.star-gate.com>
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> > Querying foreign hosts with SNMP is considered bad style, and is very > > unlikely to yield responses anyway. > Hi, > > "bad style" and "foreign hosts" not sure what to make out of that if > the hosts are freebsd hosts or are hosting freebsd. At any rate for sure > we can use snmp to query hosts which are running snmp daemons. ... if we have the owners permission. Even if we did query with SNMP, what would you ask for ? I guess that the best thing so far would be to send a single ping to all the servers, order by return TTL and turn-around, and take the best. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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