Dell-MAC-BASE-PRIO

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Category: Technology: QoS, Vendor: Dell

Description: Configures MAC address-based traffic prioritization for QoS on Dell switching platforms.

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What Is Dell-MAC-BASE-PRIO?

This is a Dell (originally RADLAN-derived, hence the rl- object prefix) proprietary MIB for configuring MAC-address-based traffic prioritization used for QoS on Dell Ethernet switching platforms. It exposes support/version indicators and tables that let an administrator force a specific Layer 3 CoS value for traffic from particular MAC addresses (rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosTable), matched by address and mask, with associated priority parameters. Its monitoring value is largely configuration-state visibility: confirming that MAC-based priority overrides are enabled and correctly provisioned (row status, address/mask pairs, and parameter values), which helps diagnose why traffic from a given device is or isn't receiving its expected QoS treatment. It is a self-contained vendor MIB with no notable external standards dependency beyond general QoS/CoS concepts. It is deployed on Dell managed switches in environments using MAC-based QoS policies to prioritize specific end-devices, and a Dell-MAC-BASE-PRIO download supplies the object definitions needed to manage these overrides from a MIB browser.

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Supported Devices

Dell managed Ethernet switch

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would check rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosEnable and the rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosTable/rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosEntry rows to confirm a specific rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosAddress/rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosMask pairing is active (via rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosRowStatus) and mapped to the intended CoS value. If a device's traffic isn't receiving expected prioritization, inspecting the corresponding rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsTable entry would reveal whether the parameters were misconfigured or the row was never activated.

What Can Be Monitored

MAC-based priority feature support/enable state
forced MAC address/mask priority mappings
priority mapping row status
priority parameter values

Imported Objects

From Dell-MIB

rnd	MODULE-IDENTITY

From SNMPv2-SMI

OBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-TC

MacAddress
RowStatus

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
rlMacBasePrio	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101
INT rlMacBasePrioMibVersion	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.1	INTEGER	read-only	Indicates the snmp support version that is supported by this device.
OCT rlMacBasePrioSupport	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.2	OCTET STRING	read-only	indicates which features of the max base prio are supported: (bit 0 is the most significant bit) bit 0 - ForceL3Cos bit 1 - SADA_TC
INT rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosEnable	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.3	INTEGER	read-write	This variable controlls the activation of ForceL3Cos feature in Mac base priority
rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.4		not-accessible	A table that contains information about ranges of addresses that are used in the mac based ptiority with the ForceL3Cos feature.
rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.4.1		not-accessible	Information about ranges of MAC addresses that are used in the mac based priority with the ForeL3Cos feature
MAC rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.4.1.1	MacAddress	read-write	The range of address of this entry. The range may not hold MAC multicast addresses.
MAC rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosMask	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.4.1.2	MacAddress	read-write	Indicate the mask to be logical-ANDed with the learned address before being compared to the value in the rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosAddress field.
ROW rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosRowStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.4.1.3	RowStatus	read-write	The row status variable, used according to row installation and removal conventions.
rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5		not-accessible	The table holds the global parameters of the L3 cos :TC, UP,DSCP.
rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5.1		not-accessible
INT rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsEntryIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5.1.1	INTEGER	read-write	Index of the ForceL3Cos parameters table.
INT rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsEntryTC	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5.1.2	INTEGER	read-write	The value of the globla TC
INT rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsEntryUP	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5.1.3	INTEGER	read-write	The value of the globla UP
INT rlMacBasePrioForceL3CosParamsEntryDSCP	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.5.1.4	INTEGER	read-write	The value of the globla DSCP
INT rlMacBasePrioSADATCEnable	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.6	INTEGER	read-write	This variable controlls the activation of SA/DA priority feature in Mac base priority
rlMacBasePrioSADATCTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7		not-accessible	A table that contains information about ranges of addresses that are used in the mac based ptiority with the ForceL3Cos feature.
rlMacBasePrioSADATCEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7.1		not-accessible	Information about ranges of MAC addresses that are used in the mac based priority with the ForeL3Cos feature
MAC rlMacBasePrioSADATCAddress	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7.1.1	MacAddress	read-write	The range of address of this entry. The range may not hold MAC multicast addresses.
MAC rlMacBasePrioSADATCMask	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7.1.2	MacAddress	read-write	Indicate the mask to be logical-ANDed with the learned address before being compared to the value in the rlMacBasePrioSADATCAddress field.
INT rlMacBasePrioSADATCPrio	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7.1.3	INTEGER	read-write	The priority that will assign to all MAC addresses that are match the range of this entry.
ROW rlMacBasePrioSADATCRowStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.89.101.7.1.4	RowStatus	read-write	The row status variable, used according to row installation and removal conventions.

RFC description

Dell vendor-private MIB for managing MAC-based priority and MAC table operations on Dell network switches.

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