Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] packet-snmp.c and libsmi

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:46:49 +0200
I hacked ethereal so that it uses libsmi to access MIB data in order
to do some additional validation and pretty printing. Looking at the
current code needed to access the CMU or the UCD MIB parser, I got the
feeling that libsmi instead would make things much simpler. In addition,
ethereal gets complete control on how to print varbind information.

Before I continue to spend time on this, I would like to get a feeling
whether would be happy to integrate libsmi patches into the ethereal
code base. Furthermore, I would like to know if people have a strong
feeling to keep support for the CMU and the UCD MIB parser or whether
it is fine to drop that once a version based on libsmi is available.

/js

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