ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Arista Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-08-15

Category: Vendor: Arista

Description: Arista EOS software IP forwarding path statistics and exception packet counters.

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What Is ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB?

ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB is an Arista Networks, Inc. proprietary MIB reporting software-forwarded (as opposed to hardware-forwarded) IP packet statistics, split by IP version. Its statistics table, keyed by IP version, records inbound receives (with 64-bit high-capacity counter), inbound octets, header/no-route/address/unknown-protocol/truncated-packet errors, forwarded datagrams, reassembly requests/OKs/failures, inbound discards/delivers, and outbound requests/no-routes/forwarded-datagrams. As a performance MIB it lets an administrator watch how much traffic is falling back to software forwarding — a potential sign of a hardware-forwarding table miss or unsupported feature — on an Arista switch. It is deployed on Arista Networks switches. Engineers can download the ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Arista Networks switches

Monitoring Examples

An administrator monitors aristaSwFwdIpStatsInForwDatagrams to catch an unexpectedly high rate of software-forwarded traffic, which can indicate a hardware forwarding-table exception on an Arista switch.

What Can Be Monitored

  • software-forwarded IP packet statistics by IP version
Imported Objects

From ARISTA-SMI-MIB

aristaMibsOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetVersion

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Counter64
MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

TimeStamp

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using aristaSwFwdIpStatsInReceives OID:

Select an Arista Networks EOS switch as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type aristaSwFwdIpStatsInReceives into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The total number of input IP datagrams received in software, including those received in error. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases between polls, since a rising count of errors, failures, or discards often points to a real underlying problem. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Counters for software-forwarded IP packets on Arista switches.

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Download ARISTA-SW-IP-FORWARDING-MIB