Hi!

I've added a new config file directive and a simple script that allows UNIX users to fetch and cache MIB modules, if they are not found in your local search directories. Feel free to give it a try:

- Update the code from the anonymous CVS repository.

- Put a `cache' line into your global or private libsmi configuration file, e.g.

cache /usr/local/share/mibs/cache /usr/local/bin/smicache \ -d /usr/local/share/mibs/cache \ -p http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/smicache/

(on one line, no -continued lines!)

Only the last configured cache is used, i.e., if you have one in the global smi.conf and one in your private ~/.smirc, only the private one will be used.

- If you use a global cache directory (like the one above), and if you are in a multi-user environment you may want to chmod 1777 /usr/local/share/mibs/cache.

- Install the smicache script (should be done by make install). Note that it is based on wget, which should be found by the configure run.

- Try to use any CISCO-* MIBs, e.g. ``smilint CISCO-PING-MIB''.

Note that this caching scheme does not care a lot about failed retrievals, file permissions, denial-of-service style hacks amoung users using a share cache, etc...

For those who'd like to know: The `cache server' at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/smicache/ is nothing more than an Apache .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (CISCO-.*) ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/$1.my [L]

More entries might follow. Any suggestions?

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