Re: SNMP for FreeBSD

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 06:20, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 
> >>c) A rationale for including the patch in the 2.0 final release. 
> > 
> > 
> > Currently the branch only supports SNMP with the OpenBSD stack. This
> > is no longer the default stack for 2.0b1. FreeBSD should become the
> > stack everyone uses, but if people want SNMP they are forced to use
> > the old stack. This patch touches the two snmp packages only. It does
> > have the risk of breaking the OpenBSD support for snmp :-(
> 
> This is a highly desirable patch as it gets rid of a long-standing issue, 
> and Andrew has tested it, and Ascom have used the stack far more than any 
> other user anyway! I would very much like to have it, although I can see 
> why it wouldn't be considered "critical". So I'll leave it to John to make 
> a final decision.

I tested it on PowerPC (for big-endian coverage) and it worked well
for me too.  I think it should be applied.

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