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Organization: IETF IPv6 MIB Working Group
Last Updated: 2000-08-24
Category: IP and Core Protocols, Network Interfaces, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description:
Defines IPv6-related textual conventions including IPv6 addresses, address prefixes, and interface identifiers for use in IPv6 network management MIBs.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| Integer32 | |
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| mib-2 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
What Is IPV6-TC?
IPV6-TC is a vendor-neutral IETF standards MIB defining textual conventions for IPv6 addressing - including IPv6 addresses, address prefixes, and interface identifiers - for use across other IPv6-related management MIBs. It belongs to the foundational/infrastructure category of SNMP MIBs supporting IPv6 network management. It does not expose any live data tables of its own; rather it supplies shared IPv6 data types that other MIBs (such as IPV6-UDP-MIB or an IPv6 TCP/IP MIB) use to represent addresses and prefixes consistently. Because it defines no runtime objects, it plays no direct role in monitoring hardware or software status by itself; its significance is purely as a dependency for IPv6-capable management MIBs. It is deployed implicitly on any SNMP-managed device or host that supports IPv6 and exposes IPv6-related management data, and developers implementing IPv6 support typically treat the IPV6-TC reference as an import-only dependency rather than a source of pollable data in its own right.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer
- any IPv6-capable SNMP-managed network device or host
Monitoring Examples
This is a textual-convention module with no runtime data objects of its own, so there is no realistic polling scenario to describe; its IPv6 address/prefix conventions are instead used by other IPv6 MIBs (for example the ipv6UdpLocalAddress object in IPV6-UDP-MIB) to represent addresses consistently.
OIDs
| OID symbolic | OID numeric | Type | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ipv6TC | 1.3.6.1.2.1.55 | Textual Conventions for IPv6. |
RFC description
IPv6 textual conventions and data types for representing IPv6 addresses, scopes, and related parameters in SNMP MIBs (RFC 2465).
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