[mrtg] MRTG errors

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Danilo,

Today Danilo Godec wrote:

>  On 12/14/2010 09:21 AM, Steve Shipway wrote:
> > Which version of MRTG are you using?  Try upgrading to 2.16.4, and make sure you're not using an older BER.pm or SNMP_session.pm from a previous version.
>
> That's the version I'm using. I compiled it myself on OpenSuSE 10.3
> x86_64, based on some other OpenSuSE SRPM.
>
> There were two 'BER.pm' files on the system - one belonging to 'mrtg'
> (/usr/lib/mrtg2/BER.pm) and the other belonging to 'smokeping'
> (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/BER.pm). I removed 'smokeping' as
> we're not using it, restarted 'mrtg' but it is still the same.
>
> As far as I can tell the remaining 'BER.pm' and 'SNMP_session.pm' files
> are correct and belong to 2.6.4.

I have asked simon leinen (the author of SNMP_session) about this
and he sais that the erros does not look anything like he has ever
seen ... he suggest to use packet capture (wireshark) to identify
the offending packet.

cheers
tobi


>    Regards, Danilo
>
>
>
>
> > Steve
> >
> > Steve Shipway
> > University of Auckland ITS
> > UNIX Systems Design Lead
> > s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz
> > Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Danilo Godec [danilo.godec at agenda.si]
> >
> > I get a lot of errors resembling this:
> >
> >> 2010-12-14 07:29:32 -- SNMP Error:
> >> Error decoding response PDU:
> >>   Expected sequence tag 48, got 78
> >>     %{%i%s%*{%i%i%i%{%@
> >>       ^
>
>
>

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