[Loïc Minier <lool at via.ecp.fr>] Nouvelle lib SNMP

[Damien Lucas]

Sorry about forwarding the previous mail in french.

The question is about the libsnmpkit that is just new in the
debian (sid).

I had a look very quickly to this library and I don't think
it will be something really good for us.

Yes, the lib supports multiple threads.
Yes, this lib could be quicker than the UC Davis one

But, it has been written for a completely different purpose:
administrating printers. So, we would have some problems:
1- It isn't able to catch traps
2- It's an early developpement lib with known segmentation faults
3- It opens one thread per session, it means for us, some at least
   one thread per switch (50 threads, is it a good idea ?)
4- It's a C++ library. We may have some difficulties to include
   it inside our code
5- It is not more documented than UCD's one
6- There are not softwares using it for something else than printers
   So we don't have any examples to begin with.

The only things that it could make easier for us are:
+ faster for a lot of request (initialization)
+ multithread support

I don't think it is really what we need and our solution seems to
be better than the use of this lib. But, I will try to test it
further this week.



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