[fpc-pascal] SNMP and MIBs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>>>> I can definitely see why it would be useful, but I'm not sure it could 
>>>> be done at runtime
>>> I would go in the directly of IDispatch. COM object querying.
>> What are the cross-platform implications of that? Presumably once an MIB 
>> description had been parsed it could be written out in any number of forms.
> 
> None. While originally devised for COM, the language support is afaik OS
> independant. But I missed the bit about generating the objects from a
> different source.
> 
> But, like you, I have not the faintest interest in such endeavour. I only
> know MIB from sysctl usage, not from SNMP

It's not so much that I haven't got the faintest interest as I hadn't 
intended to look at it and I've probably got more profitable things to do.

Didn't somebody mention an FPC parser class a few weeks ago?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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