SNMP::...r3::Pf(3pm)

🎀 SNMP::Info::Layer3::Pf 💅

okay bestie, we're doing SNMP::Info::Layer3::Pf — the SNMP Interface to FreeBSD-Based Firewalls using Pf /Pf Sense ✨ (yes that's the real name, someone wrote it like that, we respect it)

it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, so you know it's a community vibe 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR

Max Baker

periodt, that's the whole author section, we love a one-liner 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

 # Let SNMP::Info determine the correct subclass for you.
 my $pf = new SNMP::Info(
                        AutoSpecify => 1,
                        Debug       => 1,
                        # These arguments are passed directly to SNMP::Session
                        DestHost    => 'myswitch',
                        Community   => 'public',
                        Version     => 2
                        )
    or die "Can't connect to DestHost.\n";

 my $class      = $pf->class();
 print "SNMP::Info determined this device to fall under subclass : $class\n";

no cap, this is the classic "let the library figure out what you're talking to" move 🌸

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🌈 DESCRIPTION

Subclass for FreeBSD PF-Based devices 💜

🔥 LLDP Support

LLDP Support is included but untested in this Device Class 🙈 not me telling you that straight up, but fr fr, it's literally in the docs.

so the tea is: it's reported that the available CDP/LLDP modules for net-snmp don't work on FreeBSD (which is what pfSense is based on) because they assume certain Linux specific Ethernet structures 😭 which, fair, that's giving very much "this was not built for you."

This problem is apparently solved on PF based firewall appliances by using the ladvd package 🦋 and a port for it may be found here: http://www.freshports.org/net/ladvd/

and then, iconic honesty: "I'm not sure if this module ties into Net-SNMP or not." 💀 we stan a real one.

🧚 Inherited Classes

SNMP::Info::Layer3

📚 Required MIBs

FOKUS-MIB

Inherited Classes' MIBs

See "Required MIBs" in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for its own MIB requirements 💫

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⭐ GLOBALS ⭐

These are methods that return scalar values from SNMP 🎀

• $pf->vendor() — Returns 'freebsd' 🐧
• $pf->model() — Grabs the os version from sysDescr 👀
• $pf->os() — Returns 'Pf' 💅
• $pf->os_ver() — Tries to reference $pf->id() to one of the product MIBs listed above. Will probably return a truncation of the default OID for pf-based systems enterprises.12325.1.1.2.1.1 🔍

💖 Global Methods imported from SNMP::Info::Layer3

See documentation in "GLOBALS" in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for details ✨

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👑 TABLE METHODS 👑

These are methods that return tables of information in the form of a reference to a hash 🍓

🌟 Table Methods imported from SNMP::Info::Layer3

See documentation in "TABLE METHODS" in SNMP::Info::Layer3 for details 💜

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heads up bestie: this doc came from perl v5.40.1 and was dated 2026-02-28 🗓️ so if you're reading it in the future, hi, you're the main character now 💅

stay slay, go query a firewall, ily 🫶💖