Bug 124558

Summary:	net-snmp does not support 64-bit counters for ethernet in current ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matt Kulka <matt>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt Kulka 2006-03-01 12:27:36 UTC

With the current configure options for net-analyzer/net-snmp does not compile the mibs in such a way to support 64-bit counters for the interface traffic counters. This is a problem on heavily utilized Gigabit interfaces since a 32-bit counter wraps after a very short time.

With the configure option "--enable-mfd-rewrites", the mibs (and perhaps changes in the agent?) will be written properly and 64-bit counters can be used.

Additionally, the default ebuild does not build the mib necessary for reporting disk I/O. Adding "ucd-snmp/diskio" to the mibs variable in the ebuild will cause this mib to be generated. There's really no reason I can think of to leave this mib out.

Can these be included by default into the ebuild to avoid having to edit it or at least, a USE variable created for it? I work in a medium size (150+ server) environment, so this would really be a time-saver.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-01 13:30:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105047 ***