[mrtg-developers] Re: SNMPv2c Documentation error

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Steve Campbell wrote:

>
> Tobias,
> 	I've just noticed an error in the MRTG 2.9.18 configuration reference
> (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/reference.html) where
> it states:
>
>
> for SNMP version if you have a fast router you might want to put a '2'
> here. This will make mrtg try to poll the 64 bit counters. And thus
> prevent excessive counter wrapping. Not all routers support this
> though.
>
> Example:
>
>  3:public at router1:::::2
>
>
> This is incorrect - the code requires that you use '2c' as the version
> rather than just '2'.
>
>
> I had been wondering why I wasn't seeing any change after switching to
> 2!

Dear Steve,

What makes you think the code would require 2c ?

In SNMP_utils I see

    $SNMP_util::Session = ($version =~ /^2c?$/i)
      ? SNMPv2c_Session->open($host, $community, $port, undef,


which matches both 2 and 2c

cheers
tobi

>
> Steve.
>
>
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