linux core net-snmp management

Hello everybody,
we are two Italian students interested in net management, Iacopo and Marco.

I'm wondering about how can I use net-snmp agent to create the agent layer 
dealing with a Snapgear Linux emebedded system.

In particular I would like to know how to manage this parts of linux system:

	- LAN interfaces
	- WLAN interfaces
	- Static and Dynamic Routing
	- Firewalling 
	- ....

For example, let's take the Firewall example, that is covered in linux by 
iptables and netfilter. I would create a snmp agent that could get the list 
of iptables entries for all chains and all tables. And by the way the agent 
could receive a snmpset command to add some new rules.

How do I create this?
[1]Should I write a MIB modules for each service (firewall etc..) and then 
with MIB for Dummies tutorial, generate the code for the subagent and coding 
it inside.  
Or
[2] Should I use the option of snmp to run particle scripts on the agent 
platform and get/set the value I need?

In other way, Should I deal with "/proc/net/dev" or with "ifconfig" for the 
example of teh LAN interfaces?

Do you have some good guide about [1] and [2], premised that I have already 
read the wiki tutorial?

Many thanks.

-- 
Iacopo Masi
Marco Meoni
www.iacopomasi.net
www.marcomeoni.net

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