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Re: snmp decoding ...ubuntu smi issue ?... different then on windows XP ...?
From: Andrew Hood <ajhood () fl net au>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:11:05 +1100
Apologies in advance for the tone, but some actions are inexcusable. Jaap Keuter wrote:
Hi, Some history: libsmi doesn't provide MIBs any more, due to Debian bug 498476 [7]
The bug belongs to Debian, not libsmi. limsmi provides MIBs. Debian chooses to not include them.
MIB installation was spun out into an independent package snmp-mibs-downloader [8] This package downloads the MIBs directly from their source [9], so these are not cleaned up for libsmi.
Debian is choosing to use the MIB writers version - not the one in libsmi's source. They would rather have an unusable package than a working one. The better solution would have been for Debian to package the whole of libsmi as non-free, or for Wireshark to provide a Debian safe version without SNMP support. IANA and IETF provided MIBs have numerous syntax errors. The libsmi authors have gone to a lot of trouble to correct the MIBs they provide in their codebase. I can not think of a single manufacturer whose MIBs will all go into libsmi without some syntactic and semantic corrections. NetSNMP does not have the same level of strictness in its parser, so it was not a problem until the switch was made to libsmi. FYI OpenNMS runs into the same problems with faulty MIBs. Andrew -- There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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