Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] Make Net-SNMP Optional for VC++ Build

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> I say we just kill off UCD|NET-SNMP completely.
> The only thing we use them for is to translate a OID into a name.
> No big deal.
>
> If people miss them enough people will write replacement code. If not, then
> no one cares about it.
>  
Hmmm, not everyone who might miss it, is *able* to write replacement code!

> If it comes down to it we can hack up something small to do this translation
> ourself based on a flat database file.
> Say   we add temporarily a small text file with one entry per line :
> oid    name
>
> Not too much code to write to read this file when ethereal starts and store
> it in some table.
>
> Not as easy as copying in a MIB from somewhere else and make ethereal aware
> of the new OIDs   but
> 99% of users  probably only care about the same 20-30 mibs anyway.  We
> prepopulate that db file with
> the oids from those mibs and see what happens.
>  
Would it be hard to make a conversion tool that fill in the mib data 
coming from outside into that db file?

As I'm using SNMP very rarely, I might not be the right person to ask 
this for.

If we want to remove this functionality for the reasons described 
earlier, we should ask the users mailing list about this too.

Regards, ULFL