readme.txt

cmdiag-0.2.tar.gz ( Diagnostic source )

README !!!

This is a Docsis cable modem diagnostic tool, it can get information from Docsis 1.0 , 1.1 and maybe 2.0 cable modems. 
It gathers information from the cable modem via SNMP and displays various cable parameters in real time. 
This small tool is writen in C++, it runs on Linux and FreeBSD maybe it will run on other Unix-like systems but I didn't have the chance to tested. 
I hope you will find it usefull so enjoy ;) .

Requirements:
To successfully install and run this tool you will need these two libraries, Ncurses and Net-SNMP installed on your system. 
Those two libraries have packages for most every Linux distro so don't worry. 

Installation:
Just uncompress the archive cmdiag-0.2.tar.gz:
Step 1. tar xzf cmdiag-0.2.tar.gz
Step 2. cd cmdiag/
Step 3. make clean
Step 4. make 
Step 5. make install : This will install the cmdiag binary on /usr/sbin/cmdiag

Note: for FreeBSD you should use gmake instead of make for example (gmake install) 
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What's new in version 0.2 .
Now there is support for monitoring the FEC (Forward Error Correction) counters. 
You are able to monitor three new parameters in real time :
codewords without error, codewords with correctable errors and codewords with uncorrectable errors. 
The OID's for these are committed by a guy named Matt, thank you very much dude.