On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:40:35 Markus Drechsler wrote: > Hello all, > > I've installed ethereal 0.9.0 on a WinNT machine. Looks very good ! > But the SNMP files were installed to \user\mibs (look at the 'e'). > > I've not reviewed the source code, but only a simple text search on the > executable. So it seems that ehtereal wants to find them in \usr\mibs > instead. If I move the files there and ethereal generates a file .index > This doesn't happen for \user\mibs. > > So it seems to be a little problem but could be fixed besides other > changes in a future release (if I'm right). > > Currently I'v not verified this on my Linux machines. >
Yes, the snmp library that is linked in with Ethereal looks for the MIB files in c:\usr\mibs, but I made a mistake when making the Ethereal installation package. I'll generate a new package and upload it so that people won't have to manually move the files to their proper location. thanks, --gilbert
