Update various README and INSTALL files to reflect the requirement for

UCD SNMP 4.2.2 or later if you want MIB-reading support.

git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@4926 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a155d0d5195e14630a916bb8f4bbb2f84da60d9a..38dbfd7e079d688d36b853afe2132a8747cee717 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -133,10 +133,10 @@ README.win32 for those instructions.
         you can specify where your SSL library is with this switch.
 
     --disable-snmp
-        If 'configure' finds a supported SNMP library on your system,
-        the SNMP dissector will be enhanced to use the SNMP library.
-        Use this switch to avoid using the SNMP library even if you
-        have it installed.
+        If 'configure' finds a supported version of the UCD SNMP library
+        on your system,  the SNMP dissector will be enhanced to use
+        routines from that SNMP library.   Use this switch to avoid
+        using the UCD SNMP library even if you have it installed.
 
     --with-ucdsnmp=DIR
         Tell the 'configure' script where your UCD SNMP library

diff --git a/README b/README
index ffa344be5dcd9bbf1ba9f07ec744db1868b14ebe..2bc4f92321173c308b5bd5c178e1d9e6d2d2f0d3 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: README,v 1.54 2002/01/29 09:45:55 guy Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.55 2002/03/11 02:12:41 guy Exp $
 
 General Information
 ------- -----------
@@ -187,12 +187,19 @@ for those packets types.
 
 SNMP
 ----
-Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use an
-external SNMP library to do more sophisticated decoding..  The configure
-script will automatically determine which library you have on your
-system and will use it.  If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want
-to have ethereal use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp"
-option. 
+Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use the
+UCD SNMP library, version 4.2.2 or later, to do more sophisticated
+decoding, by reading MIB files and using the information in those files
+to display OIDs and variable binding values in a friendlier fashion The
+configure script will automatically determine whether you have the UCD
+SNMP library on your system, and will use it if it's version 4.2.2 or
+later.  If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want to have ethereal
+use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp" option.  (If you
+have an earlier version of the UCD SNMP library on your system, the
+configure script will stop, reporting that it can't find the
+"sprint_realloc_objid()" routine; you should either upgrade to version
+4.2.4, as that version fixes some potential buffer overflow problems, or
+should configure with "--disable-snmp".)
 
 
 How to Report a Bug

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index 923f2e3dc017f7c3b40cacd1b955975afc95a764..6ebc58c063b9b78694755b2be519266bded67102 100644 (file)
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: README.hpux,v 1.15 2001/04/11 05:24:08 guy Exp $
+$Id: README.hpux,v 1.16 2002/03/11 02:12:41 guy Exp $
 
 Contents:
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX, at
 (with mirrors in various countries, listed on the Centre's home page;
 you may want to choose a mirror closer to you) has ported versions, in
 both source and binary form, for Ethereal, as well as for the libpcap,
-GLib, GTK+, zlib, and CMU SNMP libraries that it uses.
+GLib, GTK+, and zlib libraries that it uses.
 
 The changes they've made appear largely to be compile option changes; if
 you've downloaded the source to the latest version of Ethereal (the