Hi all,
(pls Cc: me on any response, not subscribed to either list) Can't find any references to this in the archives. What's the status of MIB support for network interfaces in FreeBSD? Is it deprecated, optional, "would be nice"? Reason for asking is that a dockapp I use has stopped displaying real-time stats since a recent upgrade. This is because the author has switched to using the interface MIB to collect statistics in the latest version[1]. Which in itself seems like a nice approach, except that it doesn't display anything for my 802.11 card, or the loopback device. Digging around a bit with grep (in 4.6-RC) shows that only 3 devices in /usr/src/sys/dev seem to have implemented full MIB support, a couple more increment error counters, and ~20 more NIC drivers (including most all of my NICs) don't apparently implement any support for MIB-based counters whatsoever[2]. Anyway, should the author of the utility be advised: a) Nice approach, little premature b) Nice approach, very premature c) Wrong approach, revert to previous if you want it to work with FreeBSD d) Other? Also, I'd be interested to know which MIBs we intend to support, and from which draft/RFC it's drawn from, if anyone happens to know or can point me at some *BSD docs? TIA. Regards, AS [1] He added FreeBSD support to a previously Solaris/Linux-only app, but doesn't apparently have a FreeBSD box to test on himself, asks for feedback on his webpage. [2] It's obviously not entirely that simple, 'coz I can't find any reference to the xl driver incrementing mib counters /either/, yet the monitor dockapp seems to work for the built-in xl device in my laptop...
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