[illumos-Discuss] interesting projects available
Garrett D'Amore
garrett at nexenta.com
Sun Aug 15 10:11:37 PDT 2010
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 20:04 +0300, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> > Its not 100% clear to me that an SNMP daemon belongs in ON anyway --
> > perhaps there are dependencies that drive this?
>
> Im not a kernel guy but from my view, SNMPD belongs outside of
> ON, for sure. Why ? Because ON must be a small subset to boot a system
> and have a minimal network set of features available.
>
> stefan
>
I tend to agree, but it may depend on whether snmpd needs access to
internal bits to generate its information. This gets into interface
boundaries, which can be a sticky subject.
- Garrett
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