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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Stable interface index option
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:54:54 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 22:44, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:14:59 +0100
> Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> > I had several snmp installations with net-snmp and munin, cacti and so
> > on and all had the interface name in ifDescription already some years
> > back.
> 
> In net-snmp 5.7 or later ifDescr is set to result of pci_lookup_name
> (by default).

Seems the data should simply be in ifName nowadays (unconfirmed):
<http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/ifMIBObjects.html>

Bye,
Hannes