Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Problem with new installation.

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:43:35 +1000
> From: Martin Regner
> Scott Wozny wrote:
> <It's looking like you're right.  The directory that tethereal was
> <reporting all the errors from is the same one that I have a MIBDIRS
> <value pointing to.  I took out the MIBS and and MIBDIRS variables and
> <both ethereal and tethereal started running fine (just taking out
> <MIBDIRS cleared up the tethereal errors, but still kept the apps from
> <running).

-- snip --

> There was a message with more or less the same crash 
> information in one of the messages on
> NET-SNMP Sourcefourge bug-reports:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=112694&group_id=12694&func=browse
> 
> It was there I could see the hint that you could get that 
> specific problem if there was an IMPORT .... FROM missing in the MIB.

-- snip -

You could also try smilint from the libsmi toolkit. It definitely reports
missing IMPORT clauses, and probably a lot of other errors you didn't even
notice.
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/

FYI it does compile on WinNT with cygwin. I don't have an M$ compiler to
try.

Just make sure you are checking your set of MIBs (read the directions
carefully) and not the really clean set that come with libsmi.

Regards,
Andrew Hood
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you
didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. --
Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992

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