1227: SNMP MUX protocol and

On typical kernel/user systems, an agent speaking the SNMP [1] is often implemented as a user-process, that reads kernel variables in order to realize the Internet-standard MIB [2]. This approach works fine as long as all of the information needed by the SNMP agent resides in either the kernel or in stable storage (i.e., files). However, when other user-processes are employed to implement other