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@@ -133,10 +133,10 @@ README.win32 for those instructions. you can specify where your SSL library is with this switch. --disable-snmp - If 'configure' finds a supported SNMP library on your system, - the SNMP dissector will be enhanced to use the SNMP library. - Use this switch to avoid using the SNMP library even if you - have it installed. + If 'configure' finds a supported version of the UCD SNMP library + on your system, the SNMP dissector will be enhanced to use + routines from that SNMP library. Use this switch to avoid + using the UCD SNMP library even if you have it installed. --with-ucdsnmp=DIR Tell the 'configure' script where your UCD SNMP library @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README,v 1.54 2002/01/29 09:45:55 guy Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.55 2002/03/11 02:12:41 guy Exp $ General Information ------- ----------- @@ -187,12 +187,19 @@ for those packets types. SNMP ---- -Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use an -external SNMP library to do more sophisticated decoding.. The configure -script will automatically determine which library you have on your -system and will use it. If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want -to have ethereal use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp" -option. +Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use the +UCD SNMP library, version 4.2.2 or later, to do more sophisticated +decoding, by reading MIB files and using the information in those files +to display OIDs and variable binding values in a friendlier fashion The +configure script will automatically determine whether you have the UCD +SNMP library on your system, and will use it if it's version 4.2.2 or +later. If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want to have ethereal +use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp" option. (If you +have an earlier version of the UCD SNMP library on your system, the +configure script will stop, reporting that it can't find the +"sprint_realloc_objid()" routine; you should either upgrade to version +4.2.4, as that version fixes some potential buffer overflow problems, or +should configure with "--disable-snmp".) How to Report a Bug diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index 923f2e3dc0..6ebc58c063 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.hpux,v 1.15 2001/04/11 05:24:08 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.hpux,v 1.16 2002/03/11 02:12:41 guy Exp $ Contents: @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX, at (with mirrors in various countries, listed on the Centre's home page; you may want to choose a mirror closer to you) has ported versions, in both source and binary form, for Ethereal, as well as for the libpcap, -GLib, GTK+, zlib, and CMU SNMP libraries that it uses. +GLib, GTK+, and zlib libraries that it uses. The changes they've made appear largely to be compile option changes; if you've downloaded the source to the latest version of Ethereal (the |