Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-11 Thread Thomas Anders
Wes Hardaker wrote: >> "TA" == Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TA> This problems comes up every so often on IRC and MRTG-like forums > > For the ifTable you'd be better off graphing by something other than > ifindex anyway (say ifName). Fixes the problem ;-) Some [versions] of

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Wes Hardaker
> "TA" == Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TA> This problems comes up every so often on IRC and MRTG-like forums For the ifTable you'd be better off graphing by something other than ifindex anyway (say ifName). Fixes the problem ;-) -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ---

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Robert Story
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:41:25 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> Dave Shield wrote: TA> > I think that ideally, we should support both modes of operation TA> > (configurable). A "possibly-new" interface could either take the same TA> > index as before, or a new one, with a config option to determine which. T

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Anders
Dave Shield wrote: > On 10/08/06, Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, I kinda like this patch. Note that it does the opposite of what I >> was talking about above: it removes the old entry, and adds the new one with >> a >> *different* ifIndex. I don't think this will make the MRT

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Shield
On 10/08/06, Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I kinda like this patch. Note that it does the opposite of what I > was talking about above: it removes the old entry, and adds the new one with a > *different* ifIndex. I don't think this will make the MRTG-like folks happy, > and th

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Robert Story
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:33:46 +0200 Thomas wrote: TA> Robert Story wrote: TA> > It probably wouldn't be too hard to add a config option to assume that an TA> > interface of the same name is always the same, even if the kernel ifIndex TA> > changes. But I'd not want it to be the default. It would als

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Anders
Robert Story wrote: > It probably wouldn't be too hard to add a config option to assume that an > interface of the same name is always the same, even if the kernel ifIndex > changes. But I'd not want it to be the default. It would also mean that other > apps that use/report the ifIndex would report

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2005-11-27 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
> SO> This unfortunately leave snmpd whith a bad idea of interfaces > SO> available on the system: > SO> > SO> # snmpwalk -c public -v1 127.0.0.1 | grep ifName > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.1 = STRING: lo > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.2 = STRING: eth0 > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.3 = STRING: eth1 > SO> IF-MIB::

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2005-11-26 Thread snmp
> SO> This unfortunately leave snmpd whith a bad idea of interfaces > SO> available on the system: > SO> > SO> # snmpwalk -c public -v1 127.0.0.1 | grep ifName > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.1 = STRING: lo > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.2 = STRING: eth0 > SO> IF-MIB::ifName.3 = STRING: eth1 > SO> IF-MIB::

Re: Bug with transient interfaces (ppp)?

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Story
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:29:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SO> The internet connection is via dsl PPP, sometimes the link SO> disconnect and then reconnect automatically. We also have some SO> OpenVPN tunnels that sometimes disconnect/reconnect. SO> SO> This unfortunately leave snmpd whith a ba