OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Category: Legacy Cisco IOS

Description: Provides legacy Cisco IOS extended interface statistics supplementing RFC 1213 ifTable in early IOS versions.

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What Is OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB?

This is a legacy, vendor-specific Cisco MIB used in early Cisco IOS releases to supplement the standard RFC 1213 (MIB-II) ifTable with additional Cisco-specific per-interface statistics not covered by the generic standard. It exposes extended interface counters and status fields layered on top of the standard interface table, giving finer-grained visibility into interface behavior on Cisco IOS devices of that era. Its monitoring role is centered on interface/software-path health: administrators used it alongside the standard ifTable to track additional error counters, buffer/queue statistics, or interface-specific state that helped diagnose interface flapping, congestion, or driver-level errors on early Cisco routers. As its name and purpose indicate, it explicitly depends on and extends the standard IETF RFC 1213 ifTable rather than standing alone. It was deployed on early Cisco IOS routers and switches before Cisco's interface monitoring was fully consolidated into later, more standardized interface MIBs (such as IF-MIB). Engineers can download the OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-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

  • legacy Cisco IOS router/switch

Monitoring Examples

No sample objects were provided for this MIB, so specific object names cannot be cited; conceptually this legacy module would have been polled alongside the standard ifTable to pull Cisco-specific extended counters (such as additional error or buffer statistics) for a given interface index, helping diagnose problems the generic RFC 1213 counters didn't capture, but this cannot be grounded in confirmed object names from the source data.

What Can Be Monitored

  • extended interface error counters
  • extended interface buffer/queue statistics
  • interface-specific status fields
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SMI

localOBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

Counter

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString
ifIndex
OIDs

RFC description

Provides additional Cisco interface statistics beyond RFC1213, including protocol status and packet/bit rates.

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