From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32255 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2003 14:23:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32223 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2003 14:23:02 -0000 Subject: Re: SNMP for FreeBSD From: Gary Thomas To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: Andrew Lunn , John Dallaway , eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <3E786EAA.5050200@eCosCentric.com> References: <200303180848.24682.jld@ecoscentric.com> <1047995318.7459.2925.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> <200303181605.21189.jld@ecoscentric.com> <20030318191618.GG17373@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3E786EAA.5050200@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:23:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1048083782.9579.4929.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------