[Openswan Users] BUG with Freeswan/Openswan and SNMPD

[Ken Bantoft]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Peter B. wrote:

> Hi List
> 
> After some months of troubleshooting I found the solution for my problem:
> 
> When you use snmpd on your vpn-machine you will get a lot of troubles!
> 
> Error behavior:
> 
> VPNs are going up and everything is working, after some time you will 
> get the following message:
> 
> As a workaround I disabled now on all our firewall/vpn gateways the 
> snmpd daemon on kernel 2.4.x machines.

Interesting.  I've been using snmpd to get ipsec0 interface stats for 5 
years now, and have not seen this.  What version(s) of Free/Openswan were 
you running?

> THIS PROBLEM DOES NOT OCCUR WHEN YOU USE KERNEL 2.6.X AND OPENSWAN!
> On these machines I can use snmpd without any problems.
> 
> Disabling snmpd on the machines is a temporary workaround and not the 
> solution for the problem.
> 
> Does someone know here if this is a known bug of freeswan/openswan? I 
> couldn't find any other people with the same problem like I have.

This is the first report I've seen of it.


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