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[MIB-DOCTORS] Recommended tools for validating MIBs

Jean Mahoney <jmahoney@amsl.com> Fri, 23 February 2024 15:53 UTC

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Subject: [MIB-DOCTORS] Recommended tools for validating MIBs
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Hi MIB Doctors,

The RFC Production Center is overhauling its tool chain, and we're 
wondering if you could provide pointers to any newer tools for MIB 
validation. The wiki page that discusses tools [1] seems to be outdated. 
For example, SMICng, which is what we have been using, is no longer 
supported (e.g., its website [2] has been down for at least a year).

Thanks!

Jean Mahoney
RPC Associate Director

PS The datatracker page for MIB Doctors [3] has some broken links to 
trac.tools.ietf.org.

[1] https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/ops/mib-review-tools
[2] http://www.snmpinfo.com
[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mibdoctors/about/

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