On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:59:56PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > The point of sysctl as I understand it is to support SNMP-like management
> > of the machine.  Having N 'ctl' utilities with separate MIBs completely
> > undermines this -- those separate MIBs should live under the sysctl MIB
> > somewhere.
> 
> And while we're at it, why not make it _really_ SNMP-like, and provide
> an SNMP/UDP interface so we can maybe interrogate/manage remotely?

That's easily enough done with an SNMP daemon in user space.  The issue
I have is that without a single MIB for the whole kernel, it's hard to
do it *at all*.

Thor