2009/4/7 sanjaykumar <sanjay.ku...@globaledgesoft.com>:
> Is it possible to implement the Ether-Like mib , rfc 3635 using the "ethtool"
> ?
Hmmm...
That might be possible, I suppose.
My immediate reaction was to invoke "ethtool" via a shell script
(registered using the "pass" directive). But there are two major
problems with such an approach.
a) The Ether-Like MIB is significantly more complex than most
pass-based scripts, and it would be very fiddly to get right.
b) This would be extremely inefficient, since it would involve
running a sub-command for every single individual OID.
A better approach would probably be to write a cache-based MIB
module to implement the Ether-Like MIB in C code, and invoke
"ethtool" from within the cache loading routine, to provide the raw
data. (Plus to handle SET requests).
The most efficient approach would normally be to use the source
code of ethtool as the basis of coding a self-contained implementation
of the Ether-Like MIB. The one problem here is that ethtool is
distributed under the GPL, which means that no code from this
package can be included within the Net-SNMP project.
Using it as a source of ideas *might* be allowable - I'm really
not sure.
It's definitely an interesting idea for a project, though.
All we need now is a volunteer :-)
Dave
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