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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: gnu awk extended to speak SNMP
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Date: 6 Mar 90 23:25:24 GMT
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The modifications to GNU AWK for the the SNMP stuff are now available.  I
think that Marshall Rose sent out a message with a pointer to them on 
nisc.nyser.net, along with the original release.

I spoke to Marshall Rose at the last IETF meeting and pointed him at perl
as the tool of choice for this sort of thing.  He mentioned to me that the
guts of perl were a bit more complicated the the guts of GAWK, which is why
its in GAWK now and not perl. 

I'd love to have this capability in perl.  Of course, since perl already has
sockets, you can already cobble up SNMP packets and send them off, and process
the replies.  A bit more complicated than support directly in perl mind you,
but it doesn't require any changes to perl.

I was thinking that you could pervert associative arrays to support SNMP
queries, much the same way that they're used to hook into DBM files.  But
hey, what do I know?

louie

<<no fancy one liner, but a LISTSERV in perl is under construction!>>