[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#520724: Speed interface is 0

[Frédéric Massot]

Le 12/09/2010 19:56, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:15:44 +0200 Frédéric
> MASSOT<frederic at juliana-multimedia.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's strange, when we remove the snmp group (-g snmp remplace by
>> -g root), the speed interfaces is correct for about 30 seconds
>> after the start of snmpd and then it goes to 0.
>>
>> I use snmpd 5.4.3~dfsg-1 and kernel 2.6.35.4.
>>
>
> The following change is headed for a future Linux kernel. Probably
> not until 2.6.37 because of the current merge window.

Hi,

So, until the release of kernel 2.6.37, there are two possibilities to
monitor network interfaces:
- run snmpd as root (SNMPDOPTS= -u root -g root),
- or downgrade to previous version (5.4.1~dfsg-12).

Can you report it in the file README.Debian?


Regards.
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