3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 79ddc535..dc2092db 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
         Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
         Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
         Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
+        Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)
         WARNINGS
         Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
         single quote in the label
diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 0b1dab6c..6666de4f 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -264,3 +264,4 @@ Josip Rodin
 Dann Frazier
 Stephane Chazelas
 Craig Leres
+Brian Landers
diff --git a/plugins-scripts/check_ifstatus.pl b/plugins-scripts/check_ifstatus.pl
index 22638234..63c71ffa 100755
--- a/plugins-scripts/check_ifstatus.pl
+++ b/plugins-scripts/check_ifstatus.pl
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ sub process_arguments() {
         $status = GetOptions(
                 "V"   => \$opt_V, "version"    => \$opt_V,
                 "h"   => \$opt_h, "help"       => \$opt_h,
-                "v=i" => \$snmp_version, "snmp_version=i"  => \$snmp_version,
+                "v=s" => \$snmp_version, "snmp_version=s"  => \$snmp_version,
                 "C=s" => \$community,"community=s" => \$community,
                 "L=s" => \$seclevel, "seclevel=s" => \$seclevel,
                 "a=s" => \$authproto, "authproto=s" => \$authproto,
@@ -317,7 +317,10 @@ sub process_arguments() {
                 $timeout = $TIMEOUT;
         }
 
-        if ($snmp_version !~ /[123]/){
+        # Net::SNMP wants an integer
+        $snmp_version = 2 if $snmp_version eq "2c";
+
+        if ($snmp_version !~ /^[123]$/){
                 $state='UNKNOWN';
                 print ("$state: No support for SNMP v$snmp_version yet\n");
                 exit $ERRORS{$state};