RFC2358 , in turn, is almost completely based on both the Standard Ethernet MIB, RFC1643 [21], and the Proposed Standard Ethernet MIB using the SNMPv2 SMI, RFC1650 [22], both of which were edited by
RFC2358, in turn, is almost completely based on both the Standard
Ethernet MIB,
RFC1643 [21], and the Proposed Standard Ethernet MIB
using the SNMPv2 SMI,
RFC1650 [22], both of which were edited by
Frank Kastenholz of FTP Software and produced by the Interfaces MIB
Working Group.
RFC2358 extends those documents by providing support
for 100 Mb/sec ethernet interfaces.
RFC1643 and
RFC1650, in turn, are based on the Draft Standard
Ethernet MIB,
RFC1398 [20], also edited by Frank Kastenholz and
produced by the Ethernet MIB Working Group.
RFC1398, in turn, is based on the Proposed Standard Ethernet MIB,
RFC1284 [18], which was edited by John Cook of Chipcom and produced
by the Transmission MIB Working Group. The Ethernet MIB Working
Group gathered implementation experience of the variables specified
in
RFC1284, documented that experience in
RFC1369 [19], and used
that information to develop this revised MIB.
RFC1284, in turn, is based on a document written by Frank
Kastenholz, then of Interlan, entitled IEEE 802.3 Layer Management
Draft M compatible MIB for TCP/IP Networks [17]. This document was
modestly reworked, initially by the SNMP Working Group, and then by
the Transmission Working Group, to reflect the current conventions
for defining objects for MIB interfaces. James Davin, of the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science, and Keith McCloghrie of Hughes LAN
Systems, contributed to later drafts of this memo. Marshall Rose of
Performance Systems International, Inc. converted the document into
RFC1212 [3] concise format. Anil Rijsinghani of DEC contributed
text that more adequately describes the TDR test. Thanks to Frank
Kastenholz of Interlan and Louis Steinberg of IBM for their
experimentation.
7. References
[1] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for
Describing SNMP Management Frameworks",
RFC2571, May 1999.
[2] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of
Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC
1155, May 1990.
[3] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16,
RFC1212, March 1991.
[4] Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the
SNMP",
RFC1215, March 1991.
[5] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information
Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58,
RFC2578, April 1999.
[6] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58,
RFC2579, April 1999.
[7] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
M. and S Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD 58,
RFC2580, April 1999.
[8] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and J. Davin, "Simple
Network Management Protocol", STD 15,
RFC1157, May 1990.
[9] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser,
"Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2",
RFC1901, January
1996.
[10] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport
Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv2)",
RFC1906, January 1996.
[11] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R. and B. Wijnen, "Message
Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP)",
RFC2572, May 1999.
[12] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM)
for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv3)",
RFC2574, May 1999.
[13] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol
Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMPv2)",
RFC1905, January 1996.
[14] Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC
2573, May 1999.
[15] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access
Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)",
RFC2575, May 1999.
[16] IEEE, IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Edition: "Information technology -
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -
Local and metropolitan area networks - Specific requirements -
Part 3: Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
(CSMA/CD) access method and physical layer specifications"
(incorporating ANSI/IEEE Std. 802.3, 1996 Edition, IEEE Std.
802.3r-1996, 802.3u-1995, 802.3x&y-1997, 802.3z-1998, and
802.3aa-1998), September 1998.
[17] Kastenholz, F., "IEEE 802.3 Layer Management Draft compatible
MIB for TCP/IP Networks", electronic mail message to mib-
wg@nnsc.nsf.net, 9 June 1989.
[18] Cook, J., "Definitions of Managed Objects for Ethernet-Like
Interface Types",
RFC1284, December 1991.
[19] Kastenholz, F., "Implementation Notes and Experience for The
Internet Ethernet MIB",
RFC1369, October 1992.
[20] Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types",
RFC1398, January 1993.
[21] Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types", STD 50,
RFC1643, July 1994.
[22] Kastenholz, F., "Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types using SMIv2",
RFC1650, August
1994.
[23] Flick, J. and J. Johnson, "Definitions of Managed Objects for
the Ethernet-like Interface Types",
RFC2358, June 1998.
[24] McCloghrie, K. and M. Rose, Editors, "Management Information
Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II",
STD 17,
RFC1213, March 1991.
[25] McCloghrie, K., and F. Kastenholz, "The Interfaces Group MIB
using SMIv2",
RFC2233, November 1997.
[26] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirements
Levels", BCP 14,
RFC2119, March 1997.
[27] Smith, A., Flick, J., deGraaf, K., Romascanu, D., McMaster, D.,
McCloghrie, K. and S. Roberts, "Definitions of Managed Objects
for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs)",
RFC2668, August
1999.
[28] Flick, J., "Definitions of Object Identifiers for Identifying
Ethernet Chip Sets",
RFC2666, August 1999.
8. Security Considerations
There are two management objects defined in this MIB that have a
MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write. Such objects may be considered
sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. The support
for SET operations in a non-secure environment without proper
protection can have a negative effect on network operations.
There are a number of managed objects in this MIB that may be
considered to contain sensitive information. In particular, the
dot3StatsEtherChipSet object may be considered sensitive in many
environments, since it would allow an intruder to obtain information
about which vendor's equipment is in use on the network. Note that
this object has been deprecated. However, some implementors may
still choose to implement it for backwards compatability.
Therefore, it may be important in some environments to control read
access to these objects and possibly to even encrypt the values of
these objects when sending them over the network via SNMP. Not all
versions of SNMP provide features for such a secure environment.
SNMPv1 by itself is such an insecure environment. Even if the
network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then,
there is no control as to who on the secure network is allowed to
access and GET (read) the objects in this MIB.
It is recommended that the implementors consider the security
features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use
of the User-based Security Model
RFC2574 [12] and the View-based
Access Control Model
RFC2575 [15] is recommended.
It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP
entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly
configured to give access to those objects only to those principals
(users) that have legitimate rights to access them.
9. Authors' Addresses
John Flick
Hewlett-Packard Company
8000 Foothills Blvd. M/S 5557
Roseville, CA 95747-5557
Phone: +1 916 785 4018
EMail:
johnf@rose.hp.com
Jeffrey Johnson
RedBack Networks
2570 North First Street, Suite 410
San Jose, CA, 95131, USA
Phone: +1 408 571 2699
EMail:
jeff@redbacknetworks.com
A. Change Log
A.1. Changes since
RFC2358
This section enumerates changes made to
RFC2358 to produce this
document.
(1) Section 2 has been replaced with the current SNMP
Management Framework boilerplate.
(2) The ifMtu mapping has been clarified.
(3) The relationship between the IEEE 802.3 octet counters
and the IF-MIB octet counters has been clarified.
(4) REFERENCE clauses have been updated to reflect the
actual IEEE 802.3 managed object that each MIB object
is based on.
(5) The following object DESCRIPTION clauses have been
updated to reflect that they do not increment in
full-duplex mode: dot3StatsSingleCollisionFrames,
dot3StatsMultipleCollisionFrames, dot3StatsSQETestErrors,
dot3StatsDeferredTransmissions, dot3StatsLateCollisions,
dot3StatsExcessiveCollisions, dot3StatsCarrierSenseErrors,
dot3CollFrequencies.
(6) The following object DESCRIPTION clauses have been
updated to reflect behaviour on full-duplex and
1000 Mb/s interfaces: dot3StatsAlignmentErrors,
dot3StatsFCSErrors, dot3StatsSQETestErrors,
dot3StatsLateCollisions, dot3StatsSymbolErrors.
(7) Two new tables, dot3ControlTable and dot3PauseTable,
have been added.
(8) A new object, dot3StatsDuplexStatus, has been added.
(9) The object groups and compliances have been restructured.
(10) The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has been deprecated.
(11) The dot3ChipSets have been moved to a separate document.
A.2. Changes between
RFC1650 and
RFC2358
This section enumerates changes made to
RFC1650 to produce
RFC2358.
(1) The MODULE-IDENTITY has been updated to reflect the changes
in the MIB.
(2) A new object, dot3StatsSymbolErrors, has been added.
(3) The definition of the object dot3StatsIndex has been
converted to use the SMIv2 OBJECT-TYPE macro.
(4) A new conformance group, etherStats100MbsGroup, has been
added.
(5) A new compliance statement, ether100MbsCompliance, has
been added.
(6) The Acknowledgements were extended to provide a more
complete history of the origin of this document.
(7) The discussion of ifType has been expanded.
(8) A section on mapping of Interfaces MIB objects has
been added.
(9) A section defining the relationship of this MIB to
the MAU MIB has been added.
(10) A section on the mapping of IEEE 802.3 managed objects
to this MIB and the Interfaces MIB has been added.
(11) Converted the dot3Tests, dot3Errors, and dot3ChipSets
OIDs to use the OBJECT-IDENTITY macro.
(12) Added to the list of registered dot3ChipSets.
(13) An intellectual property notice and copyright notice
were added, as required by
RFC2026.
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