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Subject: Re: Help: ucd-snmpd w/freebsd
In-Reply-To: <56vo8j$irv$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Nov 20, 96 08:04:35 pm"
To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
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> > 
> > The result of the last request is cached by snmpd.  I haven't looked
> > at the code to see if this is a feature or not.  Query another
> > variable then query ifInOctets.1 again and you should see that it
> > has changed.
> >
> > John Capo
> 
> I ran into this when setting up mrtg, and disabled the "optimisation" in
> the snmpd code.  I was unsure whether to commit the patch to the ports
> collection, it makes very little difference in cpu resource consumption
> but certainly makes a lot of strange side effects disappear.
> 
> -Peter
> 

Yes, please put it in. At first my work-around was to configure mrtg to
monitor two interfaces om the machine, until I could figure out where in
the code the problem was.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za