[H-GEN] More help ;-) (fwd)

[Christopher Biggs]

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Bruce Campbell <bc at humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Shakhovskoy
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:05:07 -0000
> To: 'Bruce Campbell'
> Subject: More help ;-)
> 
> Have a wee question....continuing the cmu-snmpd thread...
> 
> I got mrtg to pull data from the linux box. Did an snmp-walk over the box.
> The problem is that snmpd isn't supplying IfOutOctets for either the eth0 or
> the ippp0 interfaces. IfInOctets is fine. The odd thing is that the
> IfOutErrors for both the interfaces is an unusually large number. 
> 
> Any ideas? snmpd bug? config issue? 
> 

I can't say why it isn't providing OutOctets, but ISTR that the
OutErrors is actually "errors plus collisions", or some such useless
figure.  I can't recall exactly why it was like that (UTSL).

I did some medium-heavy SNMP stuff some years back, and remembering is
painful.

cjb

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