[Netpass-users] lib/NetPass.pm patch

[Robert V. <re...@no...>]

We've been applying the following patch to NetPass.pm to enable the tree 
search functionality in the Cisco.pm module.  The reason for this is 
roughly as follows.  NP given a mac address will look at the address 
cache (via SNMP) of the switch to find if that mac is there and what 
port is it on.  The problem with the cisco's is that the address table 
community string is indexed by the vlan number.  So there seems to be to 
two choices:

1) To make a "direct" snmp call we need the network or IP address of the 
host so we can determine the vlan numbers we need.  Unfortunately the 
network is not passed to the Cisco module.  To pass it we need to pass 
it down from a couple of layers above.  Not a big deal but it does 
change a couple modules (adding one parameter to a procedure call). 
This is what we did for np1 last year.

2) We can do this without changing anything external to the cisco module
but it will be less efficient.  Basically what we have to do without
having the network is walk the address tables for all the netpass
vlans on the switch.  And if we can't find out the particular netpass 
vlans for a switch, we'll need to walk all vlans on the switch until we 
find the mac address.  So if a given switch has 30 vlans, we may need to 
make up to 30 snmp calls to go through the complete mac address table of 
the switch.  This seems potentially less efficient than linear searching 
and so should not be used.

[rev@npw1 ~]$ diff /opt/netpass/lib/NetPass.pm 
/opt/netpass-src/NetPass/lib/NetPass.pm
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<       my $myNW      = shift;
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<       my $ifIndex = $snmp->get_mac_port($mac, $myNW);
---
 >       my $ifIndex = $snmp->get_mac_port($mac);
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<                                             $mac, $loopctl, $myNW);
---
 >                                             $mac, $loopctl);
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<     $mac, {}, $myNW);
---
 >     $mac, {});


Jeff, if this doesn't break anything of yours can this be added to the 
NP source tree?

  rev