On Fri, 05 May 2006 14:20:47 +0100 John wrote:
JR> I needed a way to report the RedHat style ethernet port alias names
JR> (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*) as ifDescr for a series of
JR> products.
JR>
JR> The, rather basic, patch tucks into the ifTable code and rewrites the
JR> tmp_descr field if it can find an appropriate alias, else it leaves the
JR> field well alone.
First of all, thanks for submitting your code. I know a lot of people
customize net-snmp, but not many contribute back to the project.
This code would actually belong in interface_linux.c, in the function
netsnmp_arch_interface_container_load().
Also, the patch assumes the first config file it finds using the device name
is the correct alias. This isn't always the case. I have multiple config files
for various wireless locations I frequent, and all of them use the same base
device.
It's an interesting idea, and I'm sure it works well in your controlled
environment. But I don't think it's appropriate, as-is, for integration into
net-snmp. If you can find a more reliable way to determine the alias, I will
re-consider it.
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