bsnmpd vs net-snmp

[Steve Polyack]

Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system
>> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious
>> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to
>> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to
>> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base
>> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what
>> are the basic differences?
>>     
>
> I use bsnmpd, because I couldn't measure 64-bit counters otherwise.
>
>   
net-snmp has no problems providing 64-bit counters (interface and 
disk).  You must build it with -DWITH_MFD_REWRITES (passes 
--with-mfd-rewrites to ./configure).  I do not know why this is not the 
default.  It works just fine.  I also have a PR open to make this define 
a ports 'make config' option (therefore a persistent setting), but the 
maintainer has ignored this.