Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:17:29 -0400 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: wjw@IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SYSCTL ....... Message-ID: <199807241217.IAA01417@spooky.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:16:39 %2B0200." <199807232316.BAA06524@surf.IAE.nl>
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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
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