Re: Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.2 5.3 and possibly 5.1

Jayson,

there has been a discussion about 32-bit and 64-bit kernels about 3
months ago in the net-snmp-coders list (even if it didn't concern AIX
but instead IRIX I think the same problem applies here too). The
thread's topic was "rfc: handle platform specifics at runtime vs.
compile time?".

You compiled the net-snmp agent at a machine running a 32-bit kernel I
think - at least you tested it there. With 64-bit AIX that apparently
don't work (there is an error message concerning nlist() in the truss
file you posted).

I cannot say whether the current net-snmp code is AIX 64-bit aware such
that compiling it under a 64-bit kernel will do the trick. In general
all calls to nlist() are to be mapped to an equivalent function
(probably nlist64()) for the 64-bit kernel. Note that the decision what
function will be used for inspecting kernel structures is made during
configure and compilation and not when starting the net-snmp agent.

Johannes

Jayson Robinson schrieb:
> All,
> 
> Okay our infrastructure has tried running this on a 32 bit aix kernel
> and our package works fine with that.  We have not been able to get
> net-snmp 5.3 which is compiled on a 32 bit aix kernel to work on the aix
> 64 bit kernel.
> 
> Jayson
> 
> 
>> From: "Jayson Robinson" <[email protected]>
>> To:
>> [email protected],[email protected]
>>
>> Subject: Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.2 5.3 and possibly 5.1
>> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:24:22 -0400
>>
>> Okay all,
>>
>> Another weird one, perhaps someone has seen this.  I have compiled
>> Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.1/5.2 and 5.3  on our test boxes it works
>> just fine.  We have it under srcmaster control and am using the
>> following flags: -f udp:16161.  When we take it to our packaging teams
>> systems, we're getting nlist errors on at least the aix 5.2 and 5.3
>> boxes.  The interesting thing is that if we add the -r flag to the
>> snmpd command line options then everything works fine (except the
>> ifmib) . It's running as root in all cases.  I have included both the
>> trace and the truss output for you to take a look at.
>>
>> The command line options to configure:
>> ./configure --with-mib-modules="host disman/event-mib smux
>> ucd-snmp/diskio"     --prefix="/opt/net-snmp"
>> --with-persistent-directory="/var/net-snmp"  
>>  --with-default-snmp-version="2"
>> --with-logfile="/var/net-snmp/snmpd.log"    --with-openssl=/usr/local
>> --disable-shared
>>
>> Please let me know if anyone has seen this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jayson
>>
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> 
> 
>> << snmp_trace.out.txt >>
> 
> 
> 
>> << truss_net-snmp52.out.txt >>
> 
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