[Xorp-users] SNMP support has uncertain future

[Jaime Nebrera]

  Hi Bruce,

  I think would be clarifying if you explain what will come out of
community edition but "go" in a professional version, and what just is
going to disappear in both.

  Regards

El mar, 07-07-2009 a las 18:36 +0100, Bruce Simpson escribió:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is just to announce that SNMP support faces an uncertain future in the community branch. The SNMP implementation in community XORP is far from complete.
> 
> It suffers from the following major limitations:
>  * Only the basic BGP and interface mibs are actually supported.
> The OSPF MIB is only a stub.
>  * It is completely tied to Net-SNMP.
>   No other master SNMP agent may be used. This makes supporting other host platforms for XORP very difficult.
>  * It requires shared library support.
>   In operational deployment, this is a reasonable requirement, however it does add a dynamically-loaded component to the system SNMP master agent which may fail.
> 
>   Whilst I'm circumscribed in what I can say specifically, this entire model is being re-thought in the commercial product. A similar rethink is necessary for community XORP to succeed and continue to provide SNMP support. 
> 
>   We'd like to make it easier for contributors to add support to the SNMP agent in community XORP too, and hopefully the changes being considered right now will help.
> 
> bestest,
> BMS
> 
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