SNMP for FreeBSD

[Nick Garnett]

Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com> writes:

> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >
> >> c) A rationale for including the patch in the 2.0 final release.
> > Currently the branch only supports SNMP with the OpenBSD stack. This
> > is no longer the default stack for 2.0b1. FreeBSD should become the
> > stack everyone uses, but if people want SNMP they are forced to use
> > the old stack. This patch touches the two snmp packages only. It does
> > have the risk of breaking the OpenBSD support for snmp :-(
> 
> This is a highly desirable patch as it gets rid of a long-standing
> issue, and Andrew has tested it, and Ascom have used the stack far
> more than any other user anyway! I would very much like to have it,
> although I can see why it wouldn't be considered "critical". So I'll
> leave it to John to make a final decision.
> 

It gets my vote too.

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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
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