RE: Extending the agent on QNX Neutrino 6.2.1..

[Mephri M. <me...@in...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: net...@li... 
> [mailto:net...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of Dave Shield
> Sent: 23 Desember 2003 20:17
> To: Mephri Muhammad
> Cc: net...@li...
> Subject: Re: Extending the agent on QNX Neutrino 6.2.1.. 
> 
> 
>         [ First - *please* don't mail me privately, without copying
> 	 any responses to the mailing list.  I don't have the time
>          or inclination to offer private, unpaid, SNMP consultancy.
> 	 Keep discussions to the list, where others can both learn
> 	 and offer advice.  Thanks.   ]

I'm sorry if I've disturbed you privacy :-).

> > I'm a little bit surprised to know when you said that few 
> SNMP people 
> > are familiar with Neutrino. AFAIK, Neutrino (QNX) is a 
> relatively old 
> > real-time OS, and many people all over the world use it possibly in 
> > highly networked systems. Well, actually I'm surprised too, knowing 
> > that Neutrino itself doesn't fully support SNMP yet.
> 
> I didn't say that few SNMP people are familiar with Neutrino.
> I said that few *Net-SNMP* people are familiar with Neutrino.
> 
> Real-time O/Ses are a relatively specialised market.
> Most of the active developers working on this project tend to 
> work with "traditional" general-purpose O/Ses, and haven't 
> tended to be involved with real-time or embedded O/Ses.

I see..

> If the Net-SNMP suite can be adapted for use with Neutrino, 
> then we'd be happy to incorporate any necessary changes back 
> into the main core codebase.

As far as I consider it is possible. In fact, my customized
Net-SNMP 5.1 daemon is now functioning well under Neutrino
at least for a few simple tasks. And it seems to work for
the others as well. Just needs more sweat and patience :-)..

>   But the onus will be on those who require this 
> functionality (and have access to the necessary environment!) 
> to do the bulk of the work. The rest of us can offer 
> assistance as required, but can't really be expected to 
> concentrate on such a task.

Got your point.
 
>   This is an Open Source Project - that equates to:
> 	you want it, you write it   :-)
> 
> Dave

--meph++