All MIBs › NETGEAR-IPV6-LOOPBACK-MIB
Organization: Netgear
Last Updated: 2007-05-23
Description: NETGEAR-IPV6-LOOPBACK-MIB module
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What Is NETGEAR-IPV6-LOOPBACK-MIB?
The NETGEAR-IPV6-LOOPBACK-MIB is a Netgear private enterprise MIB used with the FastPath switch software family (found on Netgear ProSafe/M-series managed switches) to configure IPv6 loopback interface addresses. It exposes configuration-oriented data rather than counters, primarily the assignment and status of loopback interface IPv6 addresses used for internal routing references such as OSPFv3 router IDs or management reachability. Because loopback interfaces are always administratively up, this MIB is used more to verify the correct address is configured and reachable than to check hardware health, though its presence and correct value can be polled as proof that the switch's IPv6 stack and management agent (software) are alive and responding. It has an implicit dependency on the base IF-MIB and IPv6 addressing conventions (IP-MIB/INET-ADDRESS-MIB) since loopback interfaces are represented as ifIndex entries with IPv6 address bindings. Typical deployment is on Netgear FastPath-based managed switches in enterprise networks running IPv6, where engineers provision stable loopback addresses for routing protocols and remote management. Engineers can download the NETGEAR-IPV6-LOOPBACK-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Netgear FastPath-based managed switch (ProSafe/M-series)
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would configure and poll the loopback interface's IPv6 address object to confirm a stable address such as fd00::1 is bound for use as an OSPFv3 router-id anchor. If the loopback address object returns an unexpected or unset value, it indicates a misconfiguration that would break IPv6 routing adjacency on the switch. Since sample objects were not available for this MIB, monitoring is inferred from its narrow scope of loopback address configuration and status.
What Can Be Monitored
- loopback interface IPv6 address
- loopback interface configuration status
- IPv6 stack reachability via loopback
- loopback interface index binding
Imported Objects
From INET-ADDRESS-MIB
| InetAddressPrefixLength |
From IPV6-TC
| Ipv6AddressPrefix |
From NETGEAR-LOOPBACK-MIB
| agentLoopbackID | OBJECT-TYPE |
From Netgear-MIB
| ng7000managedswitch | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From SNMPv2-TC
| RowStatus |
OIDs
RFC description
NETGEAR FastPath IPv6 loopback address configuration and management.
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