On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:41 -0700, Bruce Shaw wrote:
> It has previously been noted that there's a licensing/legal issue with the
> code for snmpnetstat. This is affecting the release of 5.3. Dave is
> working on a rewrite/fix that eliminates the code in question.
A status check on that work:
I've been looking at the main three *BSD distributions, which
(for the most part) use fairly similar code, though there are some
(occasionally significant) differences between them.
I've now got a partially-working version of 'snmpnetstat', based
mostly on the OpenBSD code, though adopting FreeBSD behaviour for
the interface display.
I'm about to commit this to the main CVS development tree, for your
delectation and delight(?)
The main points to note:
- TCP/UDP connections, Inet stats (-s) and basic interface (-i)
displays are all basically working. The repeating interface
display (-wN) shows bogus values (under investigation), and
the routing table (-r) and Inet6 stuff are still to be done.
- This version accepts all the standard SNMP command-line options,
so uses the '-Cx' style syntax for netstat-specific options.
i.e.
snmpnetstat -Cs localhost for Inet statistics
snmpnetstat -Ci localhost for interface display
snmpnetstat -Ca localhost for listening services
This is probably the most significant change in behaviour.
> The problem is, the same code is in 5.2.2. I believe we have three main
> choices.
>
> 1. Do nothing.
1b. Revert to previous licensing statement
> 2. Drop snmpnetstat for this version.
>
> 3. Wait for Dave Shield's fix for 5.3 and port it to 5.2.
> Costs:
>
> 1. We're in legal jeopardy.
Particularly since I agree with Wes, and my latest update is not valid.
At the very least we should revert to the authentic license statement
(i.e. not allowing modification)
> Votes?
In order of preference:
- 2
- 1b
- veto
- 1
- 3
Dave
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