Maria Greene writes:
Maria> Does libsmi support SMIng as an input type? I apologize for Maria> asking questions I could get answers from by reading the Maria> source, but are there data structures/API routines for the Maria> class information yet?
The libsmi was actually born in oder to work on SMIng. However, lots of things have changed in the SMIng specs and since then and the implementations is now way behind the SMIng specs. In fact, we need to extend the API to support the current SMIng specs (which again may change as the SMIng WG makes progress).
We hope to get some SMIng implementation work done based on libsmi during 2001. But if someone feels to go ahead on this, please do so and keep us informed. ;-)
Maria> Also, has anyone ever discussed having libsmi support Maria> pre-compiled MIBs? In other words, making a version with just Maria> the top layer and not the parser for use by management Maria> applications that don't have access to a file system (like the Maria> CLI running on the managed device itself.)
Not that I am aware of it. It should be possible to write an smidump output driver which generates a C file with static data structures as they are used internally by the libsmi. However, such a driver would rely on libsmi internals which are going to change when work on SMIng support resumes.
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