Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Added the capability to decode SNMP OID from private MIB.

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From: Ron Flory <ron.flory@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:58:49 -0600
Alex wrote:

Hi,
I have added a new funtionality that permit to decode the Object Identifier
on a SNMP packet with the definition declared on private MIB files.

Actually Ethereal permit to show the name of the SNMP Object Identifier
(OID) captured only if it's compiled with the UCD/NET-SNMP library, and the
decoding of the OID happens only for standard MIBS and not for private MIB.


 careful, there are some misunderstanding happening here..
The ability (or inability) to decode enterprise MIBS is a UCD-snmp/net-snmp configuration issue, not an Ethereal issue. I would 
NOT make Ethereal changes to fake-out or work around net-snmp config
problems.

 I would go back and setup net-snmp correctly, then ethereal should handle
your enterprise MIBS.  I run a great many enterprise mibs on my Linux
machines, and Ethereal correctly decodes them fine.

ron