Wireshark · Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] loading MIBS

["McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [Ethereal-users] loading MIBS

You may have to re-compile the library with the MIBs built in.

 

--J

-----Original Message-----
From: Giles Scott [mailto:gscott2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:18 AM
To: Ron Flory
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] loading MIBS

Hi

I thought that as well.

I tried puting the mibs under ~root/.snmp/mibs
put the config file under ~root/.snmp/snmp.conf
As 'root' user I can walk the MIB and see the entries in symbolic format.
still no joy with ethereal :-(

Giles

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Flory [mailto:ron.flory@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:11 AM
To: Scott, Giles [GRKD:2801:EXCH]
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] loading MIBS

Giles Scott wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am running ethereal on RedHat 7.1, compiled with UCD-SNMP support
> (UCD-snmp version 4.2.4), Ethereal help about shows Compiled ,with UCD
> SNMP 4.2
>
> snmp.conf (mibfile 8030root.mib (Alteon MIB)
> Using snmpwalk I can walk the Alteon MIB, but when I do a packet trace
> Ethereal does not decode the OID.
>
> What am I missing (probably a silly question) ?

 when you are doing the 'snmpwalk', are you running as root, or as a
normal user?

 the mibs are read on a per-user basis, so placing a mib in a user
/.snmp/mibs dir will not be visible to root, which is where ethereal is
being run from.  Am i close?

ron