Re: Current state SMUX protocol support

Dave,

Thank you for your comments and for your efforts!

I know the exact problem, often chore, of working on software in
free time / lunch break, holidays, GHC, is one of my pets ;-)

If SMUX is really compatable with what we have then I'll be happy to
work bugs and submit patches... here's hoping though ;-)

Kind regards

Andy

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Dave Shield wrote:

> [Please keep all discussions on the mailing list, so
> that others can both learn and offer advice. Thanks!]
>
>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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* Department of Computing http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~amc4/ *
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