Guy Harris wrote:
>As the Windows version of Ethereal is bundled with its own version of
>the SNMP library, perhaps it should *always* use its own directory.
>
>The SNMP dissector includes code that, on Win32, forcibly sets the
>MIBDIRS environment variable to point to its MIB directory if MIBDIRS
>isn't already set. Perhaps it should just forcibly set it, overriding
>the user's MIBDIRS setting, and be done with it.
For me it would be OK if the SNMP dissector was always using the mibs in the directory
installed by Ethereal.
However I was thinking that maybe some users wants to just put all their
MIBs in one directory and use all of them with all their programs (if the MIBS are
not causing any problems with net-snmp).
Then the suggestion by Gerald seems to be a very good and flexible alternative.
Gerald Combs wrote:
<I think the user should be able to point Ethereal at a different MIBDIRS
<location if needed. Maybe we should use something like "ETHEREAL_MIBDIRS"
<as the environment variable to check on startup.