Re: Current state SMUX protocol support

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On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:25 +0100, Andrew Cheadle wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Don't take this the wrong way ;-) Before I go down
> this route, I am thinking that this is *the* Linux snmpd daemon 'of
> choice' right?

Well, it's been *my* snmpd daemon of choice for nearly ten years now!
It's been adopted by most (?all) of the Linux distributions, ousting a
Linux-specific port of the CMU agent some years ago.
It's also been picked up by various other O/S distributions (such as
the various *BSD systems).


That's not to say that some Johnny-come-lately upstart won't appear
and knock us off our pinnacle in the future :-) But it's probably
fair to say that we're currently the leading Open Source SNMP agent.

(Some of the other SNMP toolkits may have a cleaner and/or better
documented API, but I'm not aware of anything that matches our agent
in terms of the information it provides out-of-the-box).



> I have no complaints, I used the snmptrapd from the
> ucd-snmp codebase years ago. I just need to be sure it's stable enough
> and well supported enough to use in commercial projects,

It's as stable as anything can be which is constantly been worked on
and extended. If you want stability rather than cutting-edge features,
then you should probably look at either the 5.1.x or 5.2.x lines.
We're sort-of starting to gear up for a new 5.3 release, which will
include various new features, so is bound to experience some initial
problems.

As for well-supported - we do our best, but have been struggling for
some time to keep up with the support load. None of the core developers
are paid to maintain or support the software, so this tends to get
squeezed into our spare time (like during my lunch hour, or when the
boss is on holiday!) But paid employment has got to take precedence,
so we can't offer any guarantees as to how much (or little) support
you might get. Particularly as regards something like SMUX, which
is something of a dead-end now.

But if you need assistance, you can but ask, and we'll try to help
if we can. And you've always got the source.....
(There may be people who offer commercial support for this software,
but I'm not personally aware of anything - mostly because I've never
looked)

> to that end, I
> want to use what everyone else is using ;-)

That'd be us, then.
I've never really understood why, but there you go.


> Assuming it is, I guess I'll just suck it and see.

The lad learns fast.... :-)

Good luck.

Dave


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