Package: snmp-mibs-downloader Version: 1.6 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I've been using snmp-mibs-downloader for getting MIB files for my netgear switch, but I'm running into problems because RFC-1212, RFC-1215 and IANA-ENTITY-MIB are not present. # RFC-1212 and RFC-1215 Looking at these rfcs, they are a bit different than most others. The RFC does not contain a full MIB with a "XXX DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN", but instead offer a lot of textual advice and examples about how other RFCs could define their MIBs. However, these two RFCs do define macros (OBJECT-TYPE and TRAP-TYPE respectively), that *are* used by other MIBs: $ grep -R -B 1 RFC-1215 /usr/share/snmp/mibs /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/RFC1382-MIB- TRAP-TYPE /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/RFC1382-MIB: FROM RFC-1215 $ grep -R -B 1 RFC-1212 /usr/share/snmp/mibs | head -n 5 /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/FDDI-SMT73-MIB- OBJECT-TYPE /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/FDDI-SMT73-MIB: FROM RFC-1212; -- /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/PPP-LCP-MIB- OBJECT-TYPE /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/PPP-LCP-MIB: FROM RFC-1212; (15 more imports omitted) Also note that one reference is made to RFC1212 instead of RFC-1212 and since the RFC itself does not define the MIB name, this is not necessarily incorrect, but the consensus does seem to be to use RFC-1212: $ grep -R FROM.RFC1212 /usr/share/snmp/mibs | wc -l 1 $ grep -R FROM.RFC-1212 /usr/share/snmp/mibs | wc -l 17 See also: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1212.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1215.txt # Adding RFC-1212 and RFC-1215 Adding these to snmp-mibs-downloader might be a bit tricky - because the relevant definitions are not contained in an "XXX DEFINITIONS :: BEGIN" block, the current script cannot extract these definitions as-is. A pragmatic approach to this could be to add a PREDIFF config option that patches the downloaded RFC file before running smistrip, though that does require saving the RFC to a file to patch it, it seems that patch does not support patching stdin: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/737104/how-to-apply-a-patch-as-part-of-a-pipe-in-other-words-how-to-patch-stdin # IANA-ENTITY-MIB In addition to these RFCs, I'm also missing the IANA-ENTITY-MIB, which is referenced once: $ grep -R FROM.IANA-ENTITY-MIB /usr/share/snmp/mibs /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf/ENTITY-MIB: FROM IANA-ENTITY-MIB; -- RFC 6933 This one is easy - it is contained in RFC 6933 that also contains ENTITY-MIB, so this adding IANA-ENTITY-MIB is a matter of editing rfclist to: 6933 ENTITY-MIB:IANA-ENTITY-MIB:UUID-TC-MIB Tried, works. Thanks, Matthijs -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers noble APT policy: (500, 'noble'), (500, 'mantic-updates'), (500, 'mantic-security'), (500, 'mantic'), (100, 'mantic-backports'), (50, 'unstable-debug'), (50, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'oldstable-debug'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'stable'), (50, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-44-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages snmp-mibs-downloader depends on: ii patch 2.7.6-7build2 ii smistrip 0.4.8+dfsg2-16 ii wget 1.21.3-1ubuntu1.1 snmp-mibs-downloader recommends no packages. Versions of packages snmp-mibs-downloader suggests: ii unzip 6.0-28ubuntu1.1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/snmp-mibs-downloader/rfc.conf changed [not included] /etc/snmp-mibs-downloader/rfclist changed [not included] -- no debconf information
