Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with W2K Installation - follow up

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> As the Windows version of Ethereal is bundled with its own version of
> the SNMP library, perhaps it should *always* use its own directory.
> 
> The SNMP dissector includes code that, on Win32, forcibly sets the
> MIBDIRS environment variable to point to its MIB directory if MIBDIRS
> isn't already set.  Perhaps it should just forcibly set it, overriding
> the user's MIBDIRS setting, and be done with it.

I think the user should be able to point Ethereal at a different MIBDIRS
location if needed.  Maybe we should use something like "ETHEREAL_MIBDIRS"
as the environment variable to check on startup.