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- % $Header: libbsd.tex,v 3.0 91/05/17 16:16:04 jrd Rel $
- % Author: J. Davin
- % Copyright 1988, 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- \newpage
- \subsection{The BSD Library}
-
- The BSD library realizes some of the support necessary to
- construct network management applications in a BSD 4.3 UNIX
- environment.
- Sources for the BSD library reside in the
- \verb"bsd" subdirectory of the Development Kit
- distribution hierarchy.
-
- One sort of support afforded by the BSD library is provision
- of the relatively trivial transport services
- required for the operation of the SNMP protocol.
-
- Another sort of support afforded by the BSD library is
- that of accumulating from the operating environment
- those items of management information identified
- in RFC 1066 as part of the Internet standard
- MIB. The BSD library code that realizes
- this function is provided only to illustrate how the
- Development Kit can be used to
- accelerate the construction of network management agents.
- The particular items of management information
- addressed in the BSD library code are selected for their
- value in illustrating some
- aspect of using the Development Kit; no claims are made
- that the MIB subset supported by this code is
- one particularly well-suited to effective network management.
- Nor should the strategies by which this code extracts
- management information from the UNIX environment be regarded
- as necessarily optimal.
-
- A network management agent based exclusively on the support
- of the Development Kit BSD library in its current form is not
- fully compliant
- with RFC 1066, and, accordingly, should not be deployed for
- purposes other than experimentation.
-
-