Am 27.02.2008 um 16:22 schrieb Marcin Cieslak:

Hello,

What's the purpose of the smicache utility?

I have tried to fetch SNMP-REPEATER-MIB and some strange HTML with frames has been downloaded from the URL:

http://www.inotech.com/mibs/vendor/baynetworks/rfc1516-mib.txt

Is http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/smicache/ is going to be a purl.org-like one-stop shop to fetch all MIBs? Which MIBs are included there? How do I know if there is an error fetching a MIB or the file contains non-MIB garbage?

This was an experiment back in 2001. The general idea was to give libsmi users who would like to access non-standard MIBs that are not included in the libsmi distribution a chance to retrieve these MIBs from a single external source. Only this external source (in the smi.conf example this is http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/smicache/) would have to have the knowledge where such MIBs can be loaded from. However, I never really spent a second thought on this, and so we never really used it and never really setup a repository or an "intelligent" proxy on our server. Hence, I suggest NOT to include a "cache" line in your configuration file.

-frank