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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:03:24 -0500
From:      jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
To:        mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help: ucd-snmpd w/freebsd
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19961118180324.jc@irbs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611182122.OAA09009@hemi.com>; from Ade Barkah on Nov 18, 1996 14:22:44 -0700
References:  <199611182122.OAA09009@hemi.com>

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Quoting Ade Barkah (mbarkah@hemi.com):
> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting rather frustrated trying to get an snmpd running for
> FreeBSD 2.1 machines. Please help! =-) Problem: the interface counters 
> never seem to get updated once snmpd is running. 
> 
> Example. (on a pretty busy system network-wise):
> 
> $ snmpget -v 1 localhost public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1
> interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 = 558046531
> 
> (five minutes later)
> 
> $ snmpget -v 1 localhost public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1
> interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 = 558046531
> 

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




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