From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18336 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2003 13:22:21 -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 18280 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2003 13:22:21 -0000 Message-ID: <3E786EAA.5050200@eCosCentric.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:22:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn Cc: John Dallaway , ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: SNMP for FreeBSD 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> In-Reply-To: <20030318191618.GG17373@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 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. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]-- --[ can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln ]-- Opinions==mine