Bug 206217

Summary:	bsnmpd should use the value set by "ifconfig <if> description <desc>" in ifAlias
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	peter
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Hartmut Brandt <harti>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	bugs, freebsd
Priority:	---	Keywords:	patch
Version:	10.2-RELEASE	Flags:	koobs: mfc-stable10?
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description peter 2016-01-13 22:34:08 UTC

Most managed switches have the ability to set a descriptive name on interfaces. These descriptive names are fetchable via snmp and ifAlias. Many networking monitoring tools use this heavily.

It would be very useful if bsnmpd adopted the same behavior and used the description set with ifconfig <if> description <desc> for the ifAlias.

I have found that this is set in /usr/src/contrib/bsnmp/snmp_mibII/mibII_interfaces.c:531 but since Im no programmer I have no idea how to populate it correctly.

Comment 1 Marie Helene Kvello-Aune 2016-02-20 03:04:27 UTC

I see this was fixed in base r294507. ifAlias is now populated with the interfaces description if present, and an empty string otherwise.

Comment 2 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer

2016-02-20 06:11:36 UTC

Assign to committer that resolved in HEAD

Pending MFC candidate

Set mfc-stableX flag to - if not an MFC candidate with comment, OR
Set mfc-stableX flag to + when merged

Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2018-05-23 10:27:54 UTC

batch change of PRs untouched in 2018 marked "in progress" back to open.

Comment 4 Marie Helene Kvello-Aune 2018-06-19 08:28:05 UTC

This PR may be closed as a fix was committed in base r294507.