Can you suggest an alternative, extensible, snmp v3 capable agent?
 

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From: uclinux-dev-boun...@uclinux.org [mailto:uclinux-dev-boun...@uclinux.org] 
On Behalf Of Lennart Sorensen
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:22 PM
To: uClinux development list
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Is anyone using net-snmp successfully on the 
m68knommu/Coldfire platform?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:03:52PM -0800, Dan  Snyder wrote:
> I would like to know if anyone is using net-snmp successfully on the 
> m68knommu/Coldfire platform, and if so, what is the memory requirement, and 
> were any patches required?
> 
> We are had a number of problems:
> First, the compile fails unless "build static" and "build mini agent" are 
> selected.
> Second, the compiler flags are not being passed correctly so the resulting 
> executable does not work.
> After patching net-nsmp/makefile to pass the compiler flags correctly, the 
> resulting snmpd will execute, but dies shortly after with memory allocation 
> failure, even though we have 10MB free.
> We are able to build the full agent (i.e. not selecting "build mini agent") 
> by patching execute.c to avoid code with fork(), but the resulting executable 
> has the same memory usage problem noted above.
> 
> We have also tried integrating the latest net-snmp 5.2.x 
> (net-snmp-5.2.5.1.tar.gz), and have all the same problems noted above.
> 
> Is there an known problem with net-snmp on this platform, or is the memory 
> requirement simply larger than 10MB?  I find this hard to fathom, as the 
> memory usage of net-snmpd on my desktop is around 7MB.

Well there are so many memory leaks in net-snmp (certainly in 5.2)
that I don't think you can ever have enough.  5.4 has a lot less,
although given it is net-snmp I would not expect no leaks.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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