MIBs dynamically read or static? about docsis

[rlaager]

The project is more or less inactive. I try to look at things occasionally, but I don't even use the utility myself.

[carlklatsky]

Understood. I will dig into it some more when I have time, but marking this issue closed for now. Thanks.

[carlklatsky]

Just an addendum on my findings. I am building under cygwin environment. When running autogen.sh, which I think also runs configure.sh, it seems like the mib path variable NETSNMP_MIBPATH in the Makefile in the main build directory is not getting set. I manually edited that variable to be NETSNMP_MIBPATH=$(CYGWIN_BUILDROOT)/mibs, which is where I added additional mib files. Then re-build which incorporates the MIBs in that file, then decode the file and this time the OIDs that were not decoded to name now are decoded to name.

And I think this answers my own question that the MIB files get linked statically at build time. New MIB files cannot just be dropped in the /mibs directory and expect to be available for decode.