Re: snmptrapd - "Event" handling

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:45:31 +0000 Dave wrote:
DS> I was horrified to realise that this is special-case processing
DS> for displaying three traps defined in the Manager-to-Manager MIB
DS> (RFC 1451) which was part of the early (unsuccessful) SNMPv2 work.
DS> [...]
DS> I suggest that this "feature" is completely obsolete, and should
DS> be withdrawn as soon as possible. I'm not sure whether it's
DS> sensible to delete the code completely just at the moment, since
DS> we're in Release Candidate mode. But I would like to start to
DS> deprecate this code - preferably by withdrawing the '-e' option
DS> and 'printEventNumbers' directive.

Given that we're in the release candidate phase, and this doesn't actually
break anything, I say document that it's deprecated, and wait til 5.4 to
actually take it out.

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