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Cc: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp
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Steve Polyack wrote:
> Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system
>>> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious
>>> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to
>>> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to
>>> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base
>>> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what
>>> are the basic differences?
>>>     
>>
>> I use bsnmpd, because I couldn't measure 64-bit counters otherwise.
>>
>>   
> net-snmp has no problems providing 64-bit counters (interface and
> disk).  You must build it with -DWITH_MFD_REWRITES (passes
> --with-mfd-rewrites to ./configure).  I do not know why this is not the
> default.  It works just fine.  I also have a PR open to make this define
> a ports 'make config' option (therefore a persistent setting), but the
> maintainer has ignored this.

I did not know this.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Steve