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    Is there any intention of moving to net-snmp?

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      Amora
      last edited by

      The reason I say is because bsnmp kind of sucks. We had to disable it and install netsnmp for the 'EXTEND' function.

      We needed this because we wanted to poll the gmirror, and barnyard2 status via snmp and custom scripts.

      I was curious if maybe there was a reason bsnmp was being used? It's rather restrictive and if there maybe a chance net-snmp can make its way in future pfsense revisions.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        It's used because it comes with FreeBSD and it's small/light. It does what most people want without involving a lot of extra dependencies (e.g. perl)

        net-snmpd would be good to have as a package eventually since there are many things it does better (or at least easier) but the weight of its dependencies is quite large by comparison.

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          Amora
          last edited by

          Thanks!

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            blackbrayn
            last edited by

            +1 for switching to net-snmp on future releases.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              See above. Package? Perhaps, Base? Never.

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