Re: [TCLUG:11097] snmpd & mrtg

[Adam Maloney <root@bilbo.intexp.com>]

SNMP is UDP, you shouldn't be able to telnet to it (I don't think).

Try recompiling SNMPD, or try cmu-snmpd instead of ucd-snmpd.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Internet Exposure, Inc.
(612) 922-3126


On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 schewe@tcfreenet.org wrote:

> Friday morning I started getting errors from mrtg that it couldn't
> connect to my snmpd server.  I checked and sure enough it died, so I
> restarted it and tried running mrtg, same error and snmpd it now dead
> again.  If I start up snmpd and try and telnet to port 161 I get
> connection refused, but snmpd is still running.  I tried telling snmpd
> to log to a file with -l logfile -D, but nothing special came out it
> it.  
> 
> I'm running ucd-snmp 3.5.3 and mrtg 2.8.8.  Everything was working just
> fine and it quit.  I didn't do anything special on the network or to
> that machine.  In fact I haven't really installed anything on that
> machine in a month.  
> 
> I'm welcome to suggestions on how to debug this.  Thanks.
> -- 
> Jon Schewe 
> http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
> schewe@tcfreenet.org
> 
> 
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