Network Working Group D. McWalter
Request for Comments: 5132 Data Connection Ltd
Obsoletes: 2932 D. Thaler
Category: Standards Track Microsoft Corporation
A. Kessler
Cisco Systems
December 2007
IP Multicast MIB
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
In particular, it describes objects used for managing multicast
function, independent of the specific multicast protocol(s) in use.
This document obsoletes RFC 2932.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . 2
4. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. IMPORTed MIB Modules and REFERENCE Clauses . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.1. SNMPv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.2. Writeable Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.3. Readable Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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1. Introduction
This MIB describes objects used for managing IP multicast function,
including IP multicast routing. These objects are independent of the
specific multicast routing protocol in use. Managed objects specific
to particular multicast protocols are defined elsewhere.
1.1. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
2. History
This document obsoletes [RFC2932]. The MIB module defined by this
document is a re-working of the MIB module from [RFC2932], with
changes that include the following:
o This MIB module includes support for IPv6 addressing and the IPv6
scoped address architecture. [RFC2932] supported only IPv4.
o This MIB module allows several multicast protocols to perform
routing on a single interface, where [RFC2932] assumed each
interface supported at most one multicast routing protocol.
Multicast routing protocols are now per-route, see
ipMcastRouteProtocol.
o This MIB module includes objects that are not specific to
multicast routing. It allows management of multicast function on
systems that do not perform routing, whereas [RFC2932] was
restricted to multicast routing.
o This MIB module includes a table of Source-Specific Multicast
(SSM) address ranges to which SSM semantics [RFC3569] should be
applied.
o This MIB module includes a table of local applications that are
receiving multicast data.
o This MIB module includes a table of multicast scope zones.
3. The Internet-Standard Management Framework
For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current
Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of
[RFC3410].
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