[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#520724: Speed interface is 0

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:57:44 +0200
Frédéric Massot <frederic at juliana-multimedia.com> wrote:

> Le 12/09/2010 19:56, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> > On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:15:44 +0200 Frédéric
> > MASSOT<frederic at juliana-multimedia.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It's strange, when we remove the snmp group (-g snmp remplace by
> >> -g root), the speed interfaces is correct for about 30 seconds
> >> after the start of snmpd and then it goes to 0.
> >>
> >> I use snmpd 5.4.3~dfsg-1 and kernel 2.6.35.4.
> >>
> >
> > The following change is headed for a future Linux kernel. Probably
> > not until 2.6.37 because of the current merge window.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So, until the release of kernel 2.6.37, there are two possibilities to
> monitor network interfaces:
> - run snmpd as root (SNMPDOPTS= -u root -g root),
> - or downgrade to previous version (5.4.1~dfsg-12).
> 
> Can you report it in the file README.Debian?
> 

Or backport the patch to the kernel.