All MIBs › IPV6-FLOW-LABEL-MIB
Organization: IETF Operations and Management Area
Last Updated: 2003-08-28
Category: IP and Core Protocols, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Defines textual conventions for representing IPv6 flow labels in MIB modules.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| mib-2 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
What Is IPV6-FLOW-LABEL-MIB?
IPV6-FLOW-LABEL-MIB RFC 3595 defines textual conventions—shared data type definitions—for representing IPv6 flow labels for use by other MIB modules, rather than defining any managed objects of its own. As a textual-conventions-only module it exposes no runtime data such as interface, environmental, or performance counters. Consequently it has no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status; its purpose is purely to standardize how IPv6 flow label values are typed and displayed across MIBs that need them. It is inherently a dependency for any other MIB (such as IPv6 traffic classification or QoS MIBs) that needs to represent flow label fields consistently. It is used wherever IPv6-aware network equipment implements MIBs that reference flow labels, as a shared building block rather than a standalone monitored module.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
- IPv6-capable network devices generally
Monitoring Examples
This module contains no sample objects and defines only a textual convention type for IPv6 flow labels; it has no tables or scalars to poll. Other MIBs that model IPv6 flow classification or traffic engineering would import this textual convention to type their own flow-label objects. As a textual-conventions-only module, there is no monitoring scenario to describe.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ipv6FlowLabelMIB | 1.3.6.1.2.1.103 | This MIB module provides commonly used textual conventions for IPv6 Flow Labels. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 3595, see the RFC itself for full legal notices. |
RFC description
IPv6 flow label MIB; manages IPv6 flow label field usage and traffic classification based on flow labels.
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