Implementing MIB2 Interfaces and IP groups

[Frank Fock]

Hi Alex,

The subagent example of AgentX++ implements the ifTable for Linux.
Other examples for instrumenting MIB2 MIBs can be found in the
NET-SNMP sources.

Best regards,
Frank

Alex Finogenov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know an interface to Linux that will allow me to retrieve values related to the Interfaces and IP groups in the MIB2? I need to know, for example, indexes of all network interfaces, etc.
>
> The related structures are listed in /usr/include/net/if.h, but I cannot find a system or library call that will give me the values. ioctl() should be a way to do this, but the structures from if.h are not referenced there, so I don't know what are the options.
>
> It seems like I can get some of the values from /dev/kmem, but I am not sure what are the structures.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex