[Michael Matthews <mjmatthews1@xxxxxxx>]

Wes Hardaker wrote:

> > > > > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:50:37 -0500, Michael Matthews <mjmatthews1@xxxxxxx> said:
> > > > > >            
>
> Michael> I am new to ethereal. I do a lot of SNMP work. I am impressed
> Michael> by ethereals report interface but how is the MIB DB
> Michael> maintained/configured?  I cannot find any docs on this. I use
> Michael> a lot of vendor mibs other than RFCs. Any help would be
> Michael> appreciated including source location.
>
> The mibs are actually handled by the Net-SNMP package.  If you want to
> understand how to get it to deal with loading vendor and other MIBs
> that aren't in its default list then see:
>
> http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial/tutorial-5/commands/mib-options.html
>
> Once you understand that, the MIBS environment variable (which isn't
> mentioned on that page but should be) can be used as the default -M
> switch shown in that tutorial.
>
>  
Thanks for your response. Actually the page does mention the MIBS env 
var and makes special mention of ethereal users.