Update various README and INSTALL files to reflect the requirement for

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

svn path=/trunk/; revision=4926

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index ffa344be5d..2bc4f92321 100644
--- 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".)
 
 
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