Poor situation with snmp support in FreeBSD

[Alexander Bubnov]

2010/3/25 Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt at dlr.de>

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Vasyl Samoilov wrote:
>
> VS>So far I found two options for snmp daemon - bsnmp and net-snmp.
> net-snmo
> VS>giving back invalid data, bsnmp lacks some data at all.
>
> Just two general remarks:
>
>  - net-snmp is probably developed on Linux so it doesn't know how to
> access many of the informations that is available in FreeBSD.
>
>  - bsnmp is lacking developers (I'm the only one). I had a surgery in
> november and took the 4 weeks after this to rewrite all the networking
> stuff. It is in principle mostly up to date and supports also IPv6. The
> problem is that I run out of time again and just cannot do the last steps
> to release it (including testing). If there were people interested in it,
> I would happily work with them.
>
> harti
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Hi Harti!
I am sorry may be I am going to ask often asked question... Why not to
implement features which is lacking in net-snmp for FreeBSD instead of
writing new snmp (bsnmp)? As a plus net-snmp has BSD like license.


-- 
/BR, Alexander