Newbie MIB question.

Hi all;

I've been sifting through old posts and Google searches since sometime
last Wednesday trying to find an answer to my question. Maybe someone
here can help me?

I'm trying to setup a wireless test network. I would like to to be able
to manage and query my network nodes via SNMP for the purpose of
collecting results and logging them easily. I know that there are other
methods by which this can be accomplished, but it has been asked of me
to perform the tests in this way.

I have found a MIB (I'm not sure if there are any other 'default' MIBs
that accomplish the same and that are already in the net-snmp MIB-base)
called IEEE802dot11-MIB . As far as what I've been reading, some posts
online tell me that all I need to do is to change the .mib extension
to .txt and put it in the net-snmp MIB-path. I have done this, and I
have also started my daemon with the specific MIB passed as an option
("-m +IEEE802dot11-MIB), but fail to get any results from an "snmpwalk"
or "snmpget" requests. (snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost ieee802dot11
ieee802dot11: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) ->
ieee802dot11))

So, my question is along the lines of: Do I need to run mib2c and then
create my own interface code to read / set wireless paramters based on
the MIB, or can the MIB itself just be added to the library path without
modification (I can post the MIB contents for clarification if need-be).
I should ask, just to be safe, does net-snmp by default already provide
some wireless-related information?


Thank you all!


Ben Z



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