Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:58:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final call for review: Dynamic sysctls. Message-ID: <200007131658.KAA03944@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200007122148.OAA24155@usr02.primenet.com> References: <1463.963426643@critter.freebsd.dk> <200007122148.OAA24155@usr02.primenet.com>
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> > Right, but it will be a grave mistake if we just export all sysctls with > > SNMP. They look similar, but they are very different. > > > > If somebody wants to add *real* SNMP to the kernel, MIB-II and similar, > > we can probably arrange for sysctl to be a vehicle for that, but sysctl > > covers more territory than SNMP does. > > SNMP covers "all that which can be examined or modified". Not in a way that is usable, in too many cases. It works for simple things, but for complicated and/or quickly changing things, it's way too complicated and resource hungry (mostly bandwidth) because the protocol is way too chatty. (And yes, I have real-world/commercial experience doing this, for my prior and present companies, over wireless links.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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