SNMP and MRTG Issues [SOLVED]

hurgh · Last edited by hurgh on Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi All

I have searched the forums but have not come up with an answer to my problem.
I have installed SNMP and MRTG following these instructions. I only want the traffic stats so i only followed that part of it but it all seemed to work fine.

The problem I am having is that when I run the cfgmaker, it does the snmp query and writes a config file no problems, but in the config file, the only interface I have in the pc is commented out with the following reason:

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

Maybe it's because your IF-MIB::ifPhysAddress.2 shows MAC address in a little bit invalid form? Notice that the first 0 is not there, your MAC should be 00:80... and not 0:80...

IF-MIB::ifPhysAddress.2 = STRING: 0:80:ad:4:bd:7b
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hurgh · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, I had noticed that, but didnt think much of it, even if that was the problem, how am i ment to change it to fix up the mac address?

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Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject:

Have you tried to re-emerge net-snmp? snmp has been working for me for years without major problems, but sometimes small hassles go away after installing it again... for example, when I upgraded from kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x, some statistics started to show odd readings and they went away after a reinstall.

I don't know any other way for tweaking that setting. What version of net-snmp you have installed? At least 4.1.2 works for me.
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Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject:

Whoops, I mean 5.2.1.2 works for me. I accidentally looked at dev-perl/Net-SNMP. :roll:

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hurgh · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks for the reply,

Yes I have tried re-installing it a few times, and still get the same outcome.

Any other suggestions out there??

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hurgh · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:29 am Post subject:

no one else has had this problem??

I just tried re-installing again, clearing the portage cache and everything, hoping that it would work, updated world and still nothing

Any other suggestions anyone?

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hurgh · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:

Thanks for pointing that out, I had never realy noticed that.
I recently re-started the server and it already has thousands of errors, so I am thinking that something might be wrong with the network card. I am going to try replacing that and seeing if that fixed any of the problems (errors and snmp)

Thanks again for your help.

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Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:34 am Post subject:

Before replacing your network card you might want to check its duplex settings. If it's currently running at half duplex, that would explain the errors.

Try mii-tool eth0 or even better, emerge ethtool and after that use ethtool eth0. If it shows "Duplex: Half", try ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off (replace speed with the speed of your network) and see what happens.
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hurgh · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:36 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tip Janne, but it says that my link is 100 Full Duplex, which is what it should be (the switch can handle that so...)

I will probably replace the network card tonight and see if that helps it at all, and if not, will look at something else.

Thanks again.

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hurgh · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

Well thanks all for the help, I replaced the network card and it has been up for over 24 hours now and done a few gig of traffic and no errors, and also snmp now shows the interface as being up.

I changed the card to one with a different chipset, so I am not sure if it is the different chipset or the no errors that fixed snmp.

Thanks again for all the help
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