This page will contain up-to-date information about the ongoing development of the EtherLike-MIB for the Begemot SNMP daemon (BSNMP). More or like a Changelog, but much more verbose.

As statistics are provided by the drivers, a listing of drivers was created in order to track which ones offer the data. The list is available at [“EtherLike-MIB/DriverStatus”].

2006-07-14 The dot3Stats table is almost ready for testing, and the module registration hooks were created in the new file etherlike_module.c. Also discovered that EtherLike-MIB doesn't have a unique root; there's the transmission (.1.3.6.1.2.1.10) and the etherMIB (.1.3.6.1.2.1.35) nodes within it. This can complicate things, as I understand BSNMPd assumes the module is responsible for a single sub-tree.

2006-07-13 Whoa! No additional code yet, but I finally found the correct OID to pass for sysctl(3), after digging in a lot of sources. Also discovered that I indeed have an ed(4) NIC (a UMC9008 NE2000 16bit), which is awesome as the ed driver provide the data I need for testing. Moreover, I discovered that I was going on the wrong direction – only 2 drivers gatter the data needed by EtherLike-MIB, so there will be plenty of stuff to do directly in the drivers that don't. Good, good!! :)

2006-07-12 After studying lots of forms that could be used to fetch statistics, I decided to use a sample code available in ifmib(4). Contacted Garrett Wollman about his code, but no response yet.

Also, created a SVN repository in order to track development: snmp_etherlike]

There's nothing much useful yet, but it's going to be in a few days. It's easy to fetch it:

% svn checkout http://rnsanchez.wait4.org/snmp_etherlike
% cd snmp_etherlike
snmp_etherlike% ls -l
total 78
drwxr-xr-x  3 rnsanchez  users   1.5K Jul 12 21:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x  9 rnsanchez  users   512B Jul 12 16:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x  7 rnsanchez  users   512B Jul 12 21:21 .svn/
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users    52K Jul 12 15:11 EtherLike-MIB.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   2.5K Jul 12 21:21 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3coll.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3control.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3errors.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3pause.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   3.1K Jul 12 21:20 etherlike_dot3stats.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_dot3tests.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_etherconformance.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_ethermib.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_ethermibobjects.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users     0B Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_transmission.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   3.9K Jul 12 15:11 etherlike_tree.def
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   1.9K Jul 12 16:29 get_ifmib_general.c
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   1.8K Jul 12 16:27 get_ifmib_general.h
-rw-r--r--  1 rnsanchez  users   2.2K Jul 12 21:21 snmp_etherlike.3

2006-06-05 The basic file-structure skeleton for the implementation was created, based on working modules available in the CVS (-CURRENT). It successfully builds, but doesn't offer anything yet.

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