Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs)
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Network Working Group                                           A. Smith
Request for Comments: 2668                        Extreme Networks, Inc.
Obsoletes: 2239                                                 J. Flick
Category: Standards Track                        Hewlett-Packard Company
                                                             K. de Graaf
                                                          Argon Networks
                                                            D. Romascanu
                                                     Lucent Technologies
                                                             D. McMaster
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                           K. McCloghrie
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                              S. Roberts
                                                Farallon Computing, Inc.
                                                             August 1999

                   Definitions of Managed Objects for
               IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs)

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.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
   for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
   This memo obsoletes RFC 2239, "Definitions of Managed Objects for
   IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2".  This memo
   extends that specification by including management information useful
   for the management of 1000 Mb/s MAUs.

   Ethernet technology, as defined by the 802.3 Working Group of the
   IEEE, continues to evolve, with scalable increases in speed, new
   types of cabling and interfaces, and new features.  This evolution
   may require changes in the managed objects in order to reflect this
   new functionality.  This document, as with other documents issued by
   this working group, reflects a certain stage in the evolution of
   Ethernet technology.  In the future, this document might be revised,

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   or new documents might be issued by the Ethernet Interfaces and Hub
   MIB Working Group, in order to reflect the evolution of Ethernet
   technology.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction ...............................................    2
   2.  The SNMP Management Framework ..............................    3
   3.  Overview ...................................................    4
   3.1.  Relationship to RFC 2239 .................................    4
   3.2.  Relationship to RFC 1515 .................................    4
   3.3.  MAU Management ...........................................    4
   3.4.  Relationship to Other MIBs ...............................    5
   3.4.1.  Relationship to the Interfaces MIB .....................    5
   3.4.2.  Relationship to the 802.3 Repeater MIB .................    5
   3.5.  Management of Internal MAUs ..............................    5
   4.  Definitions ................................................    6
   5.  Intellectual Property ......................................   49
   6.  Acknowledgements ...........................................   49
   7.  References .................................................   50
   8.  Security Considerations ....................................   52
   9.  Authors' Addresses .........................................   53
   10. Appendix: Change Log .......................................   55
   11.  Full Copyright Statement ..................................   57

1.  Introduction

   This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
   for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
   In particular, it defines objects for managing IEEE 802.3 Medium
   Attachment Units (MAUs).

   This memo also includes a MIB module.  This MIB module extends the
   list of managed objects specified in the earlier version of this MIB:
   RFC 2239 [21].

   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 [20].

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2.  The SNMP Management Framework