* Mike Belopuhov <m...@belopuhov.com> [2013-09-12 17:54]: > it makes no sense whatsoever, reyk. those indices can be easily > stolen and nobody guarantees that if you create vlan10, vlan11, > then destroy vlan10, create vlan12 and vlan10 that vlan10 will > have the same index as before. in fact it might be a different > interface created for a different purpose days after. who knows? > if snmp client relies on this behavior, it's broken since we have > never made any provisions regarding how we use those indices.
correct. however, it is not reyk who's on drugs here, it's snmp itself. using the OS-private ifindex and making assumptions about it is the root problem. but since that's in the standards, there are only 2 possible solutions I see: -keep trying to please snmp in the way we assign ifindex -let snmpd (or sth else) make up ifindices just for that purpose -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
