ERICSSON-ROUTER-L2TP-CAP

Description: Declares SNMP agent capabilities for the Ericsson Router L2TP tunneling MIB.

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ERICSSON-ROUTER-L2TP-CAP is an Ericsson vendor MIB comprising AGENT-CAPABILITIES statements that describe which objects of the companion ERICSSON-ROUTER-L2TP-MIB are implemented on a given SEOS release across the SmartEdge (SE), SM, and Smart Service Router (SSR) product families. It does not carry live tunneling data itself but defines which L2TP tunnel and session management objects a management station can expect to query successfully on a particular platform. Its relevance to monitoring is indirect, governing whether L2TP tunnel state, session count, and related software status objects are available for polling on a given router's firmware. It explicitly depends on the underlying ERICSSON-ROUTER-L2TP-MIB whose feature coverage it documents. It is used by operators validating L2TP tunnel monitoring support before deploying broadband access aggregation services on Ericsson routers. Engineers can download the ERICSSON-ROUTER-L2TP-CAP file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

A management system checks this capabilities file to confirm that L2TP tunnel-state and session-count objects from the L2TP-MIB are supported on a specific SEOS version before enabling tunnel-health dashboards for a broadband aggregation deployment. This avoids polling errors on platform variants where certain L2TP objects are not yet implemented. As a pure capabilities descriptor, it carries no standalone sample OIDs, so its use is confined to pre-deployment conformance checks against the L2TP-MIB object model.

L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) agent capabilities for Ericsson routers.