Description: Maximum idle time of the policy rule in seconds.

If no packet to which the policy rule applies passes the middlebox for the specified midcomRuleMaxIdleTime, then the policy rule enters the termination state timedOut(9).

A value of 0 indicates that the policy does not require an individual idle time and that instead, a default idle time chosen by the middlebox is used.

A value of 4294967295 ( = 2^32 - 1 ) indicates that the policy does not time out if it is idle.

This object is used as input to a request for establishing a policy enable rule as well as for indicating the properties of an established policy rule.

If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a value of either newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7), then this object can be written by a manager in order to specify a maximum idle time for the policy rule to be requested. Writing to this object in any state others than newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7) will always fail with an 'inconsistentValue' error.

Note that this error code is SNMP specific. If the MIB module is used with other protocols than SNMP, errors with similar semantics specific to those protocols should be returned.

If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the value enabled(8), then this object indicates the maximum idle time of the policy rule. Note that even if a maximum idle time greater than zero was requested, the middlebox

may not be able to support maximum idle times and set the value of this object to zero when entering state enabled(8).

If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a value other than newEntry(1), setting(2), reserved(7), or enabled(8), then the value of this object is irrelevant.