Re: Is it possible to enable IPv6 support without the pthread library?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 April 2011 21:49, Zack Little <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The only thing I don't understand now is why IPV6-ICMP-MIB isn't being
>> returned.  I enabled it and IPV6-MIB on the "--with-mibs" line, but snmpd is
>> only returning IPV6-MIB.
>
> The   '--with-mibs'   configure option is used to control which MIB files
> are loaded by default by the MIB parser.  I.e. which object names are
> understood by the client tools.
>   It has no effect on what code is included within the agent - i.e.
> what MIB values the agent will report.
>
> To control this, you need to use the configure option  '--with-mib-modules'
>
> However, following a quick scan of the code, I'm not at all sure
> that the Net-SNMP agent implements this particular MIB.
> There's some code for it within 'mibII/ipv6.c',  but it's never
> actually registered.
> And there doesn't seem to be any mention of these objects in the newer
> re-writes.
>   So my suspicion is that nobody has ever written the necessary code
> to support this MIB.   Which is why the agent doesn't report this information.

Note that the IPv6-MIB was obsoleted in 2006, so if anyone is going to
put effort into anything, it might be best to focus on the
version-independent IP-MIB (RFC4293).

  Bill

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