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diff --git a/firmware/usrp3/lwip/lwip-1.3.1/doc/snmp_agent.txt b/firmware/usrp3/lwip/lwip-1.3.1/doc/snmp_agent.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9b58616a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/firmware/usrp3/lwip/lwip-1.3.1/doc/snmp_agent.txt @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +SNMPv1 agent for lwIP + +Author: Christiaan Simons + +This is a brief introduction how to use and configure the SNMP agent. +Note the agent uses the raw-API UDP interface so you may also want to +read rawapi.txt to gain a better understanding of the SNMP message handling. + +0 Agent Capabilities +==================== + +SNMPv1 per RFC1157 + This is an old(er) standard but is still widely supported. + For SNMPv2c and v3 have a greater complexity and need many + more lines of code. IMHO this breaks the idea of "lightweight IP". + + Note the S in SNMP stands for "Simple". Note that "Simple" is + relative. SNMP is simple compared to the complex ISO network + management protocols CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol) + and CMOT (CMip Over Tcp). + +MIB II per RFC1213 + The standard lwIP stack management information base. + This is a required MIB, so this is always enabled. + When builing lwIP without TCP, the mib-2.tcp group is omitted. + The groups EGP, CMOT and transmission are disabled by default. + + Most mib-2 objects are not writable except: + sysName, sysLocation, sysContact, snmpEnableAuthenTraps. + Writing to or changing the ARP and IP address and route + tables is not possible. + + Note lwIP has a very limited notion of IP routing. It currently + doen't have a route table and doesn't have a notion of the U,G,H flags. + Instead lwIP uses the interface list with only one default interface + acting as a single gateway interface (G) for the default route. + + The agent returns a "virtual table" with the default route 0.0.0.0 + for the default interface and network routes (no H) for each + network interface in the netif_list. + All routes are considered to be up (U). + +Loading additional MIBs + MIBs can only be added in compile-time, not in run-time. + There is no MIB compiler thus additional MIBs must be hand coded. + +Large SNMP message support + The packet decoding and encoding routines are designed + to use pbuf-chains. Larger payloads then the minimum + SNMP requirement of 484 octets are supported if the + PBUF_POOL_SIZE and IP_REASS_BUFSIZE are set to match your + local requirement. + +1 Building the Agent +==================== + +First of all you'll need to add the following define +to your local lwipopts.h: + +#define LWIP_SNMP 1 + +and add the source files in lwip/src/core/snmp +and some snmp headers in lwip/src/include/lwip to your makefile. + +Note you'll might need to adapt you network driver to update +the mib2 variables for your interface. + +2 Running the Agent +=================== + +The following function calls must be made in your program to +actually get the SNMP agent running. + +Before starting the agent you should supply pointers +to non-volatile memory for sysContact, sysLocation, +and snmpEnableAuthenTraps. You can do this by calling + +snmp_set_syscontact() +snmp_set_syslocation() +snmp_set_snmpenableauthentraps() + +Additionally you may want to set + +snmp_set_sysdescr() +snmp_set_sysobjid() (if you have a private MIB) +snmp_set_sysname() + +Also before starting the agent you need to setup +one or more trap destinations using these calls: + +snmp_trap_dst_enable(); +snmp_trap_dst_ip_set(); + +In the lwIP initialisation sequence call snmp_init() just after +the call to udp_init(). + +Exactly every 10 msec the SNMP uptime timestamp must be updated with +snmp_inc_sysuptime(). You should call this from a timer interrupt +or a timer signal handler depending on your runtime environment. + +An alternative way to update the SNMP uptime timestamp is to do a call like +snmp_add_sysuptime(100) each 1000ms (which is bigger "step", but call to +a lower frequency). Another one is to not call snmp_inc_sysuptime() or +snmp_add_sysuptime(), and to define the SNMP_GET_SYSUPTIME(sysuptime) macro. +This one is undefined by default in mib2.c. SNMP_GET_SYSUPTIME is called inside +snmp_get_sysuptime(u32_t *value), and enable to change "sysuptime" value only +when it's queried (any function which need "sysuptime" have to call +snmp_get_sysuptime). + + +3 Private MIBs +============== + +If want to extend the agent with your own private MIB you'll need to +add the following define to your local lwipopts.h: + +#define SNMP_PRIVATE_MIB 1 + +You must provide the private_mib.h and associated files yourself. +Note we don't have a "MIB compiler" that generates C source from a MIB, +so you're required to do some serious coding if you enable this! + +Note the lwIP enterprise ID (26381) is assigned to the lwIP project, +ALL OBJECT IDENTIFIERS LIVING UNDER THIS ID ARE ASSIGNED BY THE lwIP +MAINTAINERS! + +If you need to create your own private MIB you'll need +to apply for your own enterprise ID with IANA: http://www.iana.org/numbers.html + +You can set it by passing a struct snmp_obj_id to the agent +using snmp_set_sysobjid(&my_object_id), just before snmp_init(). + +Note the object identifiers for thes MIB-2 and your private MIB +tree must be kept in sorted ascending (lexicographical) order. +This to ensure correct getnext operation. + +An example for a private MIB is part of the "minimal Unix" project: +contrib/ports/unix/proj/minimal/lwip_prvmib.c + +The next chapter gives a more detailed description of the +MIB-2 tree and the optional private MIB. + +4 The Gory Details +================== + +4.0 Object identifiers and the MIB tree. + +We have three distinct parts for all object identifiers: + +The prefix + .iso.org.dod.internet + +the middle part + .mgmt.mib-2.ip.ipNetToMediaTable.ipNetToMediaEntry.ipNetToMediaPhysAddress + +and the index part + .1.192.168.0.1 + +Objects located above the .internet hierarchy aren't supported. +Currently only the .mgmt sub-tree is available and +when the SNMP_PRIVATE_MIB is enabled the .private tree +becomes available too. + +Object identifiers from incoming requests are checked +for a matching prefix, middle part and index part +or are expanded(*) for GetNext requests with short +or inexisting names in the request. +(* we call this "expansion" but this also +resembles the "auto-completion" operation) + +The middle part is usually located in ROM (const) +to preserve precious RAM on small microcontrollers. +However RAM location is possible for an dynamically +changing private tree. + +The index part is handled by functions which in +turn use dynamically allocated index trees from RAM. +These trees are updated by e.g. the etharp code +when new entries are made or removed form the ARP cache. + +/** @todo more gory details */ |