View source for IF-MIB rewrite

Starting with net-snmp 5.2 there's a new IF-MIB implementation that covers much more MIB objects (e.g. ifXTable with 64-bit ifHC* counters) than the old instrumentation. This IF-MIB rewrite has initially been provided for Linux only, but has already been ported to others and can easily be ported to more platforms.

== Porting Status ==

net-snmp 5.2.x (configure --enable-mfd-rewrites) and 5.3.x (by default) support the new IF-MIB implementation for '''Linux''' only. net-snmp 5.4 and later also has support for '''OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris''' (off by default, need to "./configure --enable-mfd-rewrites", also enables the udp-mib and tcp-mib rewrites for Solaris).

== Porting HOWTO ==

Here's what needs to be done to port the IF-MIB rewrite to a new platform. We're looking for volunteers!

There's really only one pair of files that need to be coded:

  agent/mibgroup/if-mib/data_access/interface_XXXX.[ch]

It should contain the following routines:

  netsnmp_arch_interface_init
  netsnmp_arch_interface_index_find
  netsnmp_arch_interface_container_load

See the routines for Linux for an example.

To see how the old implementation retrieved the relevant data from kernel, refer to

  agent/mibgroup/mibII/interfaces.c

and related files.

== Discussion ==

If you're interested, please get in touch with us on the lists and/or IRC.