Bug 396141
Summary: | snmpd spams syslog with _access_interface_entry_save_name and _check_interface_entry_for_updates | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Troels Arvin <troels> |
Component: | net-snmp | Assignee: | Jan Safranek <jsafrane> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 5.1 | CC: | tao |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0376 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Last Closed: | 2008-05-21 15:42:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Troels Arvin
2007-11-22 22:57:51 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. It's not so simple to fix this assert. It raises when an interface with some name gets new ifIndex. I.e. when ppp0 gets disconnected (ppp0 goes down) and user reconnects (ppp0 gets up again, with another ifindex). Net-snmp cannot distinguish if the new ppp0 is the same interface as old ppp0 (and map internally the new ifIndex to old ifIndex) or it's new interface, not related to previous ppp0 (and delete old ppp0 and instantiate new, with new ifIndex). Both options are valid, it depends on network configuration by admin. The patch always deletes old interface. Applying the patch could confuse some tools like MRTG, which do not expect that an interface with certain name gets new ifIndex. Correct is to make new configuration option, which allows network admin to configure this behavior - replace old interface or reuse it. Such change is quite big, please contact your Red Hat support at http://support.redhat.com and consult with them new RFE. I agree that the long message is quite annoying and does not say anything useful, so I will replace it with more meaningful message and display it only once during net-snmp start. *** Bug 431064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0376.html |