Back end: mib2db

[fenner]

mib2db uses libsmi's smidump to translate a MIB module into python, and then parses the python and uses the django database bindings to insert the MIB into the database. It runs periodically, over the extracted RFC and I-D MIB database.

If a module doesn't parse because it has a top-level OID of, say, mib-2.XXX since it is an I-D, assign it an OID based on a hash of the module name, under enterprises.fenner.

[fenner]

Here is how the old perl code did this:

sub mkoid($) {
        my($file) = shift;

        "1.3.6.1.4.1.6316.42." . unpack("%16C*", $file);
}

There is no need to keep the same algorithm, but the same idea.