Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error reporting...

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>What looks like a solution is to send an SNMP trap.  This could be picked
>up by any standard SNMP software.  What remains are designing the trap
>and figuring where what MIB to put it under.  Currently the plan is to
>get an enterprise number of LinuxNetworX and find a place in our MIB tree
>for it, but I'm not certain if this is the best way to do this.
>
>The case where I'm thinking about reporting errors is not when a timeout
>occurs and a retransmit happens but instead when etherboot gives up.  I'm
>pretty familiar with that code path :)
>
>Comments, critiscims, and especially better ideas are welcome.

This is an excellent idea.  I think using SNMP is the way to go. Are
there any MIBs for boot loaders?  Maybe Etherboot can start a trend
here. In the meantime a private MIB should be ok to start with. What
statii do you intend to return?