Notes20100315

Net-SNMP Meeting
2010-03-15

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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2010-03-15.

Date and Time: 2010-03-15 20:00 UTC

• Next Meeting Time
  • Apr 19
• Releases
  • 5.2.x -- dts12
    • shooting for early-to-late April depending on responses (rc1 -> final, vs rc1 -> rc2 -> final)
  • 5.4.x -- dts12
    • shooting for early-to-late April depending on responses (rc1 -> final, vs rc1 -> rc2 -> final)
  • 5.6.x -- hardaker
    • reminder: last time was "probably; confirm this time"
    • vote result: 3 +, 2 o+, 0 -
• Administrative Issues
  • Note: Test server -- back on line
    • dts12: could -c public return "read the documentation"?
• Coding Issues
  • RPM API compatibility issues -- jsafrane
    • resolved in current code (thinks so)
    • issue on debian
      • Will change logic to librpm && linux to be less optimistic about what's on the system
  • UCD-SNMP OID registration issues -- magfr
    • nothing new
  • Multi-core CPU issues -- TrogL
    • Trogl not present
    • likely stalled indefinitely?
  • agent threads / child processes (see bug 2959811 and bug 2959812)
    • will implement using a socket fd and a select() watch
  • HP/UX support? several messages in January about configure/make failing
    • no one has hpux boxes.
    • dts12 may have one?
  • processing invalid messages (see mail)
    • requestId and similar aren't checked for data type
    • asn_parse_int() is only called for ints, but asn_parse_unsigned() is called for uint, guage, etc so type can't be checked there
    • Where do we check for the type?
    • Choices"
      1. ignore the whole thing
      2. put it inside asn_parse_foo (which may not be possible)
      3. put it above each call
      4. create new functions called asn_parse_and_check_int() wrapped around the lower call.
    • voting produced mostly support for #2 with fallback to #4 or #3 for dtls12
    • likely to come back after further research
  • hrStorage indexes (see mail thread and bug 1689551)
    • dts12 and jsafrane will look into a solution for changing ID numbers
  • Testing -- Hardaker
    • compile everything in dir with every lib, or separate dirs for separate libs?
    • stalled but nearing top of todo list
    • Build a basic framework, as simple as possible - and see what happens
• Round Table
  • hardaker: (d)tls, config and testing
  • bartvanassche: agentx default on windows to use localhost:705