Re: Study net-snmp source code

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8 November 2010 06:06, Queenie de Melo <[email protected]> wrote:
> i too would like to understand the flow and study the source code of
> net-snmp.

That's a bit vague.
What exactly are you interested in?

Client applications?   The SNMP agent (in broad terms)?
The processing of an individual requested varbind?
Subagents?


> From here, now when should i start?

When?  As soon as you like?
Where?
   For following client applications, the simplest is probably to run one
of the clients within a debugger, and single-step through the code.

For following the workings of the agent, it's probably simpler to start
by turning on some selected debugging ("-D{token}") and watch what
happens when the agent receives a request.

Have a look through the code under 'agent' for mention of DEBUGMSG,
and turn on something that looks interesting.
  (Hint - do *not* turn on full debugging.  You'll drown in the output!)


Dave

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