[ net-snmp-Bugs-1474468 ] ifConnectorPresent always returns 0

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Bugs item #1474468, was opened at 2006-04-21 22:52
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Category: agent
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: CAP (capkvs)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ifConnectorPresent always returns 0

Initial Comment:
Net-SNMP v5.3.0.1 running on Linux 2.4.x or 2.6.x.

snmpd always returns the value 0 for the 
ifConnectorPresent column.

Examination of source code reveals three problems:

1) Value returned is not a TruthValue (obviously), 
i.e., not true(1) or false(2);

2) Value returned is not tied to the "real" data, 
which seems to be the connector_present field of the 
corresponding netsnmp_interface_entry struct;

3) The "real" data (connector_present) is not 
actually initialized with measured data (e.g., data 
returned from ioctl call).

The attached patch should fully fix problems 1 and 2, 
but only partially fixes problem 3. This partial fix 
for problem 3 consists of returning 
ifConnectorPresent.N = false(2) if and only if 
interface N is a loopback device. It works on Linux 
2.4.x and 2.6.x, but maybe not on most other OSes, 
which is good enough for our purposes.

Note: Could not find a fix in the CVS repository, but 
this may be due to SourceForge.net update/hardware 
problems?

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