net-snmp doesnt work with passthrough programs on amd64 in dapper

[Janåke Rönnblom]

To reproduce the problem you have to be running dapper amd64 version with snmpd installed. Then you configure the snmpd.conf with a passthrough control which runs an perl script (in my case):

pass_persist .1.3.6.1.4.1.21695.1.2 /usr/local/src/dhcpd-snmp/dhcpd-snmp /usr/local/src/dhcpd-snmp/dhcpd-snmp.conf

The script in question can be downloaded from http://www.net-track.ch/opensource/dhcpd-snmp/.

The script works from the commandline and with my recompiled net-snmp-5.2.3-4ubuntu1 from feisty for amd64 on dapper!

The error that is reported when you do and snmpwalk is:
NETTRACK-DHCP-SNMP-MIB blah blah blah
Timeout: No Response from bifrost

and in the syslog.conf on the snmpd server:
send response: Error building ASN.1 representation (build int size 4: s/b 8)

Perhaps this is yet another 64bit vs 32bit problem...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

[tek-ops (mschenck-gmail)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/+bug/199246

it's a duplicate and very easy to produce to determine if you have a fix or not.

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?
>
> ** Changed in: net-snmp (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> net-snmp doesnt work with passthrough programs on amd64 in dapper
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103244
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in "net-snmp" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> To reproduce the problem you have to be running dapper amd64 version with snmpd installed. Then you configure the snmpd.conf with a passthrough control which runs an perl script (in my case):
>
> pass_persist .1.3.6.1.4.1.21695.1.2 /usr/local/src/dhcpd-snmp/dhcpd-snmp /usr/local/src/dhcpd-snmp/dhcpd-snmp.conf
>
> The script in question can be downloaded from http://www.net-track.ch/opensource/dhcpd-snmp/.
>
> The script works from the commandline and with my recompiled net-snmp-5.2.3-4ubuntu1 from feisty for amd64 on dapper!
>
> The error that is reported when you do and snmpwalk is:
> NETTRACK-DHCP-SNMP-MIB blah blah blah
> Timeout: No Response from bifrost
>
> and in the syslog.conf on the snmpd server:
> send response: Error building ASN.1 representation (build int size 4: s/b 8)
>
> Perhaps this is yet another 64bit vs 32bit problem...
>

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Michael Schenck
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[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

I think this might be fixed now in karmic. Please give it a test and report back your findings.

Thanks
chuck