MIB for my NIC cards

Hello; I'm trying to get regular polling of the errors, txqueue
length, and dropped packets from my ethernet cards on a machine. I've
already got snmpd set up on it serving other data just fine; it's just
that I can't seem to locate the MIB for these particular devices (and
associated subtree that would have these errors accessible) anywhere.
I've currently been trying to locate them by hardware vendor, I guess
that might not be the right path to be taking... Perhaps I should be
looking in subtrees of the associated device? (ie eth0, eth1)

If anybody knows where I might be able to look for this information I
would definitely appreciate it.

Oh not sure if this matters but the hardware device is a RealTek
RTL8139.

Thanks!

-Damon

"Damon Getsman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:b43e726a-9b77-40ac-802f-(E-Mail Removed)...

> I've currently been trying to locate them by hardware vendor, I guess
> that might not be the right path to be taking... Perhaps I should be
> looking in subtrees of the associated device? (ie eth0, eth1)
>
> If anybody knows where I might be able to look for this information I
> would definitely appreciate it.

"man snmpwalk" might be helpful to you.

On Apr 29, 4:18 pm, "h.stroph" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "Damon Getsman" <dgets...@amirehab.net> wrote in message
>
> news:b43e726a-9b77-40ac-802f-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > I've currently been trying to locate them by hardware vendor, I guess
> > that might not be the right path to be taking... Perhaps I should be
> > looking in subtrees of the associated device? (ie eth0, eth1)
>
> > If anybody knows where I might be able to look for this information I
> > would definitely appreciate it.
>
> "man snmpwalk" might be helpful to you.

I was totally on the wrong track, as far as I can tell, with that
last .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2 lead that I was going on.

I started looking closer to home, thinking that I'd dug through too
many conversations indexed by google in my research on this and maybe
gotten pulled a bit off track. Sure enough, I finally found what I
was looking for in some of the data available under <net-snmp/mib-
share>/IF-MIB.txt. I shouldn't have been looking for a particular
piece of hardware's attribute, I needed to look under the interface
itself. Maybe that information is available under a hardware specific
MIB as well, but this was much easier to find.

The information that I need to poll is definitely in that MIB. I just
need to figure out how to specify which interface I'm working on,
first, and then under the IfEntry sequence there are the stats I need:
ifInDiscards (13), ifInErrors (14), ifOutDiscards (19), ifOutErrors
(20), ifOutQLen (21).

SO I should just have to figure out what the full name for this MIB is
and do snmptranslate on that to convert it to a numeric OID. After I
have such, I make this available to the group that I am polling under
in snmpd.conf, and I'll have access to my data.

snmpwalk will help me a lot, I'm sure, once I know how to construct
the full string to feed to snmptranslate. I don't have a clue where
to find that just yet, only that what I need is in IF-MIB. :P

-Damon

Damon Getsman wrote:
> On Apr 29, 4:18 pm, "h.stroph" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> "Damon Getsman" <dgets...@amirehab.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:b43e726a-9b77-40ac-802f-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>> I've currently been trying to locate them by hardware vendor, I guess
>>> that might not be the right path to be taking... Perhaps I should be
>>> looking in subtrees of the associated device? (ie eth0, eth1)
>>> If anybody knows where I might be able to look for this information I
>>> would definitely appreciate it.
>> "man snmpwalk" might be helpful to you.
>
> I was totally on the wrong track, as far as I can tell, with that
> last .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2 lead that I was going on.
>
> I started looking closer to home, thinking that I'd dug through too
> many conversations indexed by google in my research on this and maybe
> gotten pulled a bit off track. Sure enough, I finally found what I
> was looking for in some of the data available under <net-snmp/mib-
> share>/IF-MIB.txt. I shouldn't have been looking for a particular
> piece of hardware's attribute, I needed to look under the interface
> itself. Maybe that information is available under a hardware specific
> MIB as well, but this was much easier to find.
>
> The information that I need to poll is definitely in that MIB. I just
> need to figure out how to specify which interface I'm working on,
> first, and then under the IfEntry sequence there are the stats I need:
> ifInDiscards (13), ifInErrors (14), ifOutDiscards (19), ifOutErrors
> (20), ifOutQLen (21).
>
> SO I should just have to figure out what the full name for this MIB is
> and do snmptranslate on that to convert it to a numeric OID. After I
> have such, I make this available to the group that I am polling under
> in snmpd.conf, and I'll have access to my data.
>
> snmpwalk will help me a lot, I'm sure, once I know how to construct
> the full string to feed to snmptranslate. I don't have a clue where
> to find that just yet, only that what I need is in IF-MIB. :P
>
> -Damon

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