[geeks] SNMP baby!

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 patrick at zill.net
Sun Aug 14 15:31:44 CDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:43, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Now observe babylon5:eth0, and observe that all that incoming backup
> traffic that, well ...  isn't there.
> 
> ifconfig shows the incoming traffic, at a steady 2,000 packets or so per
> second.  Procmeter3 shows the traffic.  But to snmpd, it seems to be
> invisible.
> 
> babylon5 is running Linux kernel 2.4.31 and ucd-snmp-4.2.6.
> 
> Any clues....?

Try using the command line tools on the linux machine itself to talk to the snmpd.  I have seen cases where some Linux utils break depending on kernel version.  Like snmpget'ing the counter value for eth0 .

--Patrick



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