GIGAswitchEthernet-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated October 05, 2026

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Category: Technology: Switching/L2, Vendor: DEC/Digital

Description: GIGAswitch Ethernet MIB for managing high-speed Ethernet switch port configuration and traffic statistics.

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What Is GIGAswitchEthernet-MIB?

GIGAswitchEthernet-MIB is a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) enterprise-specific MIB for managing the GIGAswitch/Ethernet high-speed switch, an early-generation high-performance Ethernet switching platform. Although no runtime sample objects were provided in this batch beyond its version identity string, MIBs of this type for the GIGAswitch family are documented to expose per-port configuration and Ethernet traffic statistics for the switch's high-speed ports. This class of MIB supports monitoring the operational and traffic-performance status of the switch's ports, packet/error counters and port configuration state, functioning as a device-specific performance/fault MIB for this legacy DEC switching platform. It sits alongside standard Ethernet-related MIB conventions of that era for baseline interface statistics. It was deployed historically on DEC GIGAswitch/Ethernet chassis switches in high-performance LAN backbone environments of the 1990s. Engineers can download the GIGAswitchEthernet-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in GIGAswitchEthernet-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

  • Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) GIGAswitch/Ethernet chassis switch

Monitoring Examples

Without concrete port/table object names surfaced in this batch (only the MIB's own version-identity object was available), a specific polling example can't be honestly grounded in named objects; based on its documented purpose, an admin would typically expect per-port configuration and traffic-counter tables for the GIGAswitch/Ethernet's high-speed switching ports, where rising error counters on a port would indicate a failing link or oversubscribed backplane path.

What Can Be Monitored

  • switch/agent MIB version
  • per-port Ethernet configuration
  • per-port traffic/error statistics
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC-1215

TRAP-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter
Gauge
IpAddress
NetworkAddress
TimeTicks
enterprises
OIDs

RFC description

Digital Equipment Corporation GIGAswitch/Ethernet management including resource and event control.

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