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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bsnmpd & 64bits counters problem
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Harti Brandt wrote:
> The highspeed counters are only there if this is a high-speed interface. 
> High speed means that the baudrate in the interface MIB (the one in the 
> kernel) must be larger than 20Mbaud.
>   

Does it look at the if_baudrate member?

em(4) and other drivers will set if_baudrate according to the speed 
detected from Ethernet link beat, this could be creating a situation 
where bsnmpd is not exposing the high-speed counters at runtime?

I imagine this could really confuse an SNMP-oriented Network Management 
System such as Nagios or OpenNMS.

cheers
BMS