Yes.. The following uses the tricklet routines (for Cisco routers), but you
can convert to the netview snmp routines.

  @descrdata = `echo "ifDescr[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;


  @subdata = `echo "locIfDescr[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;

Here is a piece of perl code that reads most of the info out of a Cisco
Router (again with the tricklet routines). You need to ad code to check
interface readout order, and be aware that the readouts may be null in some
cases (It doesn't hurt what I use this for, so I don't check).

  @netmaskdata = `echo "ipAdEntNetMask[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;

  @macdata = `echo "ifPhysAddress[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  #print @macdata;
   chop(@macdata);
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#macdata;$i++)
    { $macdata[$i] =~ /ifPhysAddress\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$mac[$1]) = split("=",$macdata[$i]);
    }

  @mtudata = `echo "ifMtu[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  #print @mtudata;
   chop(@mtudata);
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#mtudata;$i++)
    { $mtudata[$i] =~ /ifMtu\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$mtu[$1]) = split("=",$mtudata[$i]);
    }

  @speeddata = `echo "ifSpeed[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  #print @macdata;
   chop(@speeddata);
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#speeddata;$i++)
    { $speeddata[$i] =~ /ifSpeed\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$speed[$1]) = split("=",$speeddata[$i]);
    }

  @descrdata = `echo "ifDescr[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  # print @descrdata;
   chop @descrdata;
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#descrdata;$i++)
    { $descrdata[$i] =~ /ifDescr\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$descr[$1]) = split("=",$descrdata[$i]);
    }


  @admindata = `echo "ifAdminStatus[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  chop @admindata;
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#admindata;$i++)
    { $admindata[$i] =~ /ifAdminStatus\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$admin[$1]) = split("=",$admindata[$i]);
    }


  @operdata = `echo "ifOperStatus[]" | $trickbin/snmp-tbl $router public`;
  chop @operdata;
   for ($i=0;$i<=$#operdata;$i++)
    { $operdata[$i] =~ /ifOperStatus\[(\d*)\]\=/;
      ($sub,$oper[$1]) = split("=",$operdata[$i]);
    }




At 12:37 PM 1/5/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Does anyone know if the interface description on cisco routers can be
>viewed via mib.
>
>Thanks in Advance.
>Darren.
>
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