Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] OID Names/Comments ...
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:38:00AM +1000, HOOD, Andy wrote:
> I haven't looked but net-snmp probably lets you retrieve the description.
Yes, but it knows stuff about SNMP, so it doesn't meet at least one of
my preferred criteria:
Ideally, that code would know *nothing whatsoever* about SNMP,
so that it doesn't drag in a pile of other libraries not needed
for the purpose of interpreting ASN.1 descriptions (e.g., the
crypto library that the UCD SNMP library requires on some
platforms; that requirement causes all sorts of pain for people
building from source on those platforms, as the configure script
doesn't automatically try to find that library).
The fact that you have to use "--with-ssl=" causes periodic complaints
to ethereal-users and ethereal-dev.
I don't know whether it meets another criterion:
I say "information base" rather than "management information
base" or "MIB" as I'd like it to be able to read COPS policy
information base information (see RFC 3084) as well, so the COPS
dissector could use it rather than having some knowledge
hard-wired into it.
> http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/ certainly does.
It also, as far as I know, knows about SNMP; I don't know whether it
could handle non-SNMP IB information. If not, it has the same problems.
