Subject: Re: RFC: /kern/summary
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/1999 17:07:31
[ On Thursday, March 11, 1999 at 09:54:34 (+0100), Guenther Grau wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: RFC: /kern/summary
>
> "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> > There are also very very critical problems with the current
> > implementation of sysctl on the inside.  I personally think it's a messy
> > hard-coded hack.  The half-completed attempt to make it more like a true
> > ASN.1 MIB in FreeBSD (or is it completed now?) was more on the right
> 
> Just to be pedantic. AFAIK, there is no such thing as a ASN.1 MIB.
> Maybe you mean SNMP MIB?

I did mean something like an SNMP MIB, I suppose.  To me the "ASN.1"
part is more important than the "looks like an SNMP MIB" part.  The
latter just makes it easier to plop an SNMP agent on top of.

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