On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:39 -0400, Samer Vazdekis wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I'm running net-snmp version 5.2.1.2. I'm coming across a problem in
> snmp_select_info(). This part of code didn't change when I compared it
> to version 5.4.2. Basically, this is using gettimeofday() to figure
> out the timeouts. When I reset system date and time, specially
> backwards, the select fails and keeps on failing until I set back the
> date and time. I'm considering a solution that changes the request's
> time, expire, and timeout values (in netsnmp_request_list) if current
> time is found to be less than the time the request was created.

>  Pleae, let me know your opinion. Or maybe if there is already a fix
> for this.

This is a hard problem.

The problem is that there are two concepts - wait for X time units and
wait until time T - but only one interface to handle it.

Check out the thread "Patch for delaying of tasks attached to
snmp_alarm_register" from september-october 2005 for a lot more
description.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.net-snmp.devel/10570/focus=10634

There is also an earlier stab on the problem in
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=312694&aid=2505488&group_id=12694

/MF

I think I will have to do a FAQ of this...


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