Abstract: A MIB manager including set of software interfaces, semantics, procedures and data structures that work together as a system to dynamically manage a tree of SNMP data objects identified by a standard object identifier (OID) along with each object's value. An agent uses the interface of the MIB manager to add and delete MIB objects by OID. When one or more new objects are added to the MIB tree, the agent provides the MIB manager with references to subroutines within the agent and external to the MIB manager, which subroutines operate to manage the identified objects by monitoring and controlling the objects' values. This enables the MIB manager to be implemented in a manner independent of the application and hardware. The MIB manager allows agent to add new objects at any level within the MIB tree, thus allowing modification at any desired degree of granularity. The agent may add a single leaf element, a table row, an entire table or an entire branch of the MIB tree.

Abstract: A driver bundle including a compressed, executable and self-extracting host driver prepended to an adapter card driver to form a single executable driver bundle. The driver bundle has a size less than the maximum allowable size for a command file, which is 64 Kbytes as defined by MS-DOS.RTM.. The combined size of the expanded host driver and the adapter card driver is greater than the maximum allowable size. When the driver bundle is executed, it commands a processor of a computer system to expand and execute the host driver. The computer system includes a network adapter card with an adapter processor for executing the adapter card driver. When executed, the host driver commands the processor to retrieve and download the adapter card driver to the network adapter card for execution by the adapter processor.