Re: Odd(?) SNMP problem...

Markus Binz (mbinz@bryan.solnet.ch)
24 Aug 1997 12:32:22 GMT

Jason Marshall (marshalj@spots.ab.ca) wrote:
> Hi All, we've got 2 OR-U's running 3.5L between us and another site. The
> link stays up for quite a while (6 days before I reset it today), and is
> quite decent.

> However, we're using MRTG to graph usage across this cct, and maybe 20
> times a day (we graph every 5 minutes, or 288 times a day) our mrtg
> process claims that it cannot connect to <public
> community>@pmX.spots.ab.ca, tried multiple times... Is there a known
> problem with SNMP and 3.5L? I wasn't going to upgrade to 3.7 for another
> month or more because I hate being on the bleeding edge, and I don't
> recall anything like this being mentioned on the list ever before...

There is a timeout value in the SNMP_Session.pm library.
Set it to 20 or 30 and you will never see a timeout again.

> Has anyone any insight? Thanks in advance!

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