64-bit SNMP counters for FreeBSD && graphing bandwidth usage

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 7 06:11:36 PST 2006


On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:24:44AM +0100, Anders Nordby wrote:
A> Is there any way to have 64-bit SNMP counters in FreeBSD? Especially for
A> ifInOctets/ifOutOctets. It seems the built-in bsnmpd only has
A> Counter32, and net-snmpd the same (--enable-mfd-rewrites, which is
A> supposed to help, seems to only work in Linux).

Extended counters live in a separate subtree and bsnmpd supports them:

> snmpwalk -v 2c host community ifMIB.ifMIBObjects.ifXTable.ifXEntry


A> My systems are pushing more than 100 mbps these days, and graphing
A> bandwidth usage with 32-bit counters gives funny-looking graphs.

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