[cgl_discussion] IPv6 MIBs/SNMP requirements/support

[Zou, Yixiong]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> At first glance this (ioctls needed) looked like valuable info.
> However, I don't see Linux supporting _any_ IOCTLs for access to
> network statistics, so we'll need to clear up this point first.
> Did I overlook them somewhere?
> If not, I don't expect to add any ioctl's.
> Some other method of reading the network statistics will be
> needed, such as reading from /proc/net/* or whatever is currently
> done.
> 
> --
> ~Randy

I was hoping that kernel would provide the ioctl() calls and we can 
just use the current implementation in NET-SNMP. If this is not the 
case for linux, then basically we need to implemented the whole ipv6 
MIBs set for NET-SNMP. That will be a lot more work. :)

Does the 2.5 kernel also provide things in "tcp6.h" that's in FreeBSD?
If so, what header file is that? 

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