The 802.11 MIB support for NetSNMP 5.0.8 found here uses Wireless Extension
information to populate the 802.11 MIB. See
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html for more
details about Wireless Extensions.
Drivers vary in what funtions and data they do and do not support in terms of
Wireless Extensions, so the 802.11 MIB is populated based on what the
particular driver makes available. Future releases will include special case
data that is available in the HostAP and MadWiFi drivers only.
See http://hostap.epitest.fi/ for
information on the HostAP driver for the Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ for more information on the
MadWiFi driver for the Atheros chipsets.
This release assumes you already have a working build for NetSNMP in place.
See http://www.net-snmp.org/ for details
about installing NetSNMP on a Linux or other Unix oriented OS. To add 802.11
MIB support, unzip the files in this release to the following directory:
.../net-snmp-5.0.8/agent/mibgroup
Reconfigure NetSNMP by adding the following parameter to the configuration
step (from the .../net-snmp-5.0.8 directory):
--with-mib-modules="ieee802dot11"
Your configuration command may look a bit different than mine which is:
./configure --with-cflags="-g -O0 -Dlinux"
--with-mib-modules="ieee802dot11"
Now rebuild NetSNMP using the make clean, make, make install commands.
That's it, assuming you already had a NetSNMP build that was responding to
SNMP requests.
Keep in mind this is a beta release and only GETs are supported at the moment.
Please send feedback about problems and/or enhancements to
lsimmons@avantcom.com.
ieee802do11-0.0.1 - 09/15/2003
Initial BETA release.
See also - AvantCom Private 802.11 MIB Support for NetSNMP
See also - AvantCom Wireless Monitor
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