Problems with Counter32 objects on a 64-bit machine

Darren Gamble <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good day,

I'm having some very unusual problems with a net-snmp client/agent pair
reporting the right data.  The client is on a Linux 32-bit machine, and the
agent is on is a Linux 64-bit machine (x86_64), compiled for their
respective architectures.  Both are net-snmp 5.2.1.2, although I had 5.2
when I first discovered the problem.

If I query the 64-bit agent machine from itself, net-snmp returns the
following for the ifInOctets table:


# /usr/bin/snmpwalk -c <string> -Ofn -v 2c 127.0.0.1 ifInOctets
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1 = Counter32: 66691386
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.2 = Counter32: 344047930477
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.3 = Counter32: 343620854818
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4 = Counter32: 427075659


... which has counter values that (I believe) are out of the valid range of
a Counter32.

This causes great problems on the client machine; I'd guess due to the fact
that it is 32-bit.  Here is a query taken just a few moments after the
previous query:


# /usr/bin/snmpwalk -c <string> -Ofn -v 2c a.b.c.d ifInOctets
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1 = Counter32: 66707344
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.2 = Counter32: 66707344
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.3 = Counter32: 66707344
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4 = Counter32: 427203655
# /usr/bin/snmpget -c <string> -Ofn -v 2c a.b.c.d ifInOctets.2
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.2 = Counter32: 0


Am I missing something here?  Does this look like a bug?

Thanks in advance!

============================
Darren Gamble
Planner, Regional Services
Shaw Cablesystems GP
630 - 3rd Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2P 4L4
(403) 781-4948



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