Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:35:05 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=F6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp Message-ID: <49F8ABE9.4060505@pp.dyndns.biz> In-Reply-To: <49F5FBBF.6060207@comcast.net> References: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com> <49F5F459.9000403@ibctech.ca> <49F5FBBF.6060207@comcast.net>
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> 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.
>
This post caught my attention because I've had a 64 bit -> 32 bit
truncation error in my SNMP logs since I installed net-snmp on my AMD64
a year ago. I was unable to figure out how to add -DWITH_MFD_REWRITES to
make so I ended up editing the Makefile and added --enable-mfd-rewrites
(the compile told me --with-mfd-rewrites had been replace by
--enable-mfd-rewrites). My error messages now seems to have disappeared
so I'm extremely happy. I later found the following info in NEWS:
Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD:
- Experimental support for 64bit interface counters (ifXTable). Enable
via '--with-mib-modules=if-mib --enable-mfd-rewrites'.
So I have two questions:
1) Is --with-mib-modules=if-mib already covered in the Makefile? I can
see the parameter but it refers to a variable I don't know the contents
of. The variable seems to refer to the build option NET_SNMP_MIB_MODULES
which is mentioned at the beginning of the compile process but I don't
know how to use it or its initial value.
2) Is there anyway to enable these two options during make without
editing the Makefile?
Regards
Morgan
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