RE: Is it possible to enable IPv6 support without the pthread library?

[Zack L. <zac...@ho...>]

Thanks Bill.  I wasn't even aware that they had been obsoleted.  I just had a requirement to have our instance of snmpd return both IPV6-MIB and IPV6-ICMP-MIB.  Now that I know this I can go back to the group that gave me the requirement and inform them.  I do see that there is IPv6 info being returned to me in IP-MIB, which is good.
 
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:25:42 -0400
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to enable IPv6 support without the pthread library?
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Dave Shield  wrote:
> > On 21 April 2011 21:49, Zack Little  wrote:
> >> The only thing I don't understand now is why IPV6-ICMP-MIB isn't being
> >> returned.  I enabled it and IPV6-MIB on the "--with-mibs" line, but snmpd is
> >> only returning IPV6-MIB.
> >
> > The   '--with-mibs'   configure option is used to control which MIB files
> > are loaded by default by the MIB parser.  I.e. which object names are
> > understood by the client tools.
> >   It has no effect on what code is included within the agent - i.e.
> > what MIB values the agent will report.
> >
> > To control this, you need to use the configure option  '--with-mib-modules'
> >
> > However, following a quick scan of the code, I'm not at all sure
> > that the Net-SNMP agent implements this particular MIB.
> > There's some code for it within 'mibII/ipv6.c',  but it's never
> > actually registered.
> > And there doesn't seem to be any mention of these objects in the newer
> > re-writes.
> >   So my suspicion is that nobody has ever written the necessary code
> > to support this MIB.   Which is why the agent doesn't report this information.
> 
> Note that the IPv6-MIB was obsoleted in 2006, so if anyone is going to
> put effort into anything, it might be best to focus on the
> version-independent IP-MIB (RFC4293).
> 
> Bill