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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

Thanks for the feedback !
I’ll then proceed and keep the existing code and reproduce the problem again. 

I’ll get back to you by then so that you can collect enough traces.

> Le 11 févr. 2022 à 18:44, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:27:20 +0100, Frédéric LOUI 
> <> said:
> 
>>> SNMP in the latest code (95739f) is broken:
>> Yes, it still needs some adjustments.
> 
>>> Speaking of SNMP, can you please explain (again) the problem that
>>> occured with NMaaS and SNMP queries?
> 
>> I used LibreNMS real time graph, that started polling at shorter interval. 
>> After 3 hours, Linux crashed.
>> I had to reboot it via BMC
> 
> It would be good if you could repeat this and try to check on the host
> if you can see any sign of a problem before it crashes. Since SNMP
> Queries do not interact directly with the Python code, the problem
> can really only occur either in the snmp daemon or the Perl code that
> implements the AgentX module.  Maybe it's a memeory leak that only
> occurs at high query rates.
> 
> According to csaba's response it seems that we need to keep this code
> for now in order to be able to supply complete ifTable and ifXTable
> MIBs.
> 
> -- 
> Alex
> 
>>> @csaba: If freerouter now has SNMP support built in (that was news to
>>> me), how exactly does it work?
>> If this works in freeRtr, I’d rather adapt the code in order to fill 
>> freeRtr SNMP counters.
>> But IIRC, we had Alex SNMP dev because it was not available. But indeed it 
>> was 2 years ago ...
> 
>> I’ve to finish exposing counters to freeRtr, but once I finished I’ll 
>> tacle SNMP.
>> It would be great iin which direction I would have to go in that moment.
> 
>> Thanks !
>> Frederic
> 
>>> Le 11 févr. 2022 à 18:09, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi Frederic
>>> 
>>> SNMP in the latest code (95739f) is broken:
>>> 
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: BfIfSnmpClient - main
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: bf_switchd started with 
>>> SNMP export
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: Generic table clearing: 
>>> (Order not matters)
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: Exception in thread 
>>> bf_snmp:
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: Traceback (most recent 
>>> call last):
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:   File 
>>> "/nix/store/bvz1i8rik3ynd1rpb8gczwqfayxv4dfz-bf_forwarder-22.02.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rare/bf_snmp_client/__init__.py",
>>>  line 35, in run
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:     self.active_subifs = 
>>> self.getAllActiveSubInterfaces()
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:   File 
>>> "/nix/store/bvz1i8rik3ynd1rpb8gczwqfayxv4dfz-bf_forwarder-22.02.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rare/bf_snmp_client/__init__.py",
>>>  line 297, in getAllActiveSubInterfaces
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:     tbl_global_path = 
>>> "%s.ig_ctl" % self.pipe_name
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: AttributeError: 
>>> 'BfIfSnmpClient' object has no attribute 'pipe_name'
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: During handling of the 
>>> above exception, another exception occurred:
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: Traceback (most recent 
>>> call last):
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:   File 
>>> "/nix/store/v72cj06nk69cynckz2s12rhar25k1h7v-python3-3.8.5/lib/python3.8/threading.py",
>>>  line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:     self.run()
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:   File 
>>> "/nix/store/bvz1i8rik3ynd1rpb8gczwqfayxv4dfz-bf_forwarder-22.02.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rare/bf_snmp_client/__init__.py",
>>>  line 80, in run
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]:     "%s - exited with 
>>> code [%s]" % (self.class_name, _Exception())
>>> Feb 11 17:52:11 spare-PB1 start_bffwd.sh[12143]: NameError: name 
>>> '_Exception' is not defined
>>> 
>>> Speaking of SNMP, can you please explain (again) the problem that
>>> occured with NMaaS and SNMP queries?
>>> 
>>> @csaba: If freerouter now has SNMP support built in (that was news to
>>> me), how exactly does it work?
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Alex